├── LICENSE └── README.md /LICENSE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | MIT License 2 | 3 | Copyright (c) 2019 Ole Henrik Stabell 4 | 5 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 6 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 7 | in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 8 | to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 9 | copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 10 | furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 11 | 12 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 13 | copies or substantial portions of the Software. 14 | 15 | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 16 | IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 17 | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 21 | SOFTWARE. 22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # ExtendScript Language Server 2 | This project aims to create a feature complete [language server](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/). 3 | This would allow for easy integration of ExtendScript into code editors like Visual Studio Code, Vim, Neovim, Emacs, Jetbrains IDEs, etc. 4 | 5 | ## The Challenge 6 | To date there are 2(3) language servers for Javascript all based on ES6 or newer: 7 | 8 | * Javascript/Typescript Language Server built into VSCode 9 | * [Sourcegraphs Javascript/Typescript Language Server](https://github.com/sourcegraph/javascript-typescript-langserver) 10 | * [Flowtypes Flow Javascript Language Server](https://github.com/flowtype/flow-for-vscode) 11 | 12 | All of these work great for Javascript and Typescript, but due to ExtendScripts old E4X/Ecmascript 4 limitations they do cause issues with ExtendScript code. 13 | 14 | This also means there's no existing Language Server to base ours on, giving us two options: 15 | 16 | * Make a brand new language server from scratch specifically for ExtendScript (Possibly making a plain E4X and ES4 as well, because why not?) 17 | * Use one of the existing Javascript Language Servers as a basis and add and remove features to shape it into an ExtendScript language server. 18 | 19 | Of the two options the first one is the most enticing, but also the one that will require the most work, the second one could lead to issues and might not be a perfect solution, especially not longterm. 20 | 21 | ## I need help 22 | While i do use ExtendScript on a semi-frequent basis, i am far from an expert on the language, which is why i'm asking all of you talented ExtendScript efficianados out there to help bring this project to reality. Any help is appreciated! 23 | 24 | ## More info to come (hopefully) 25 | 26 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------