Currently, the dev build doesn't support watch mode, which would make the development process much more convenient, since we would only need to reload the Extension Development Host if the build is always done in the background. Currently the problem is that the watch mode "freezes", since we probably need to define our own problem matcher for VSCode to handle the messages from watch (currently, the matcher does not recognize incoming messages, it assumes that the command has not yet finished - however, it can wait forever due to the watch mode). The watch build should support the following:
Currently, the dev build doesn't support watch mode, which would make the development process much more convenient, since we would only need to reload the Extension Development Host if the build is always done in the background. Currently the problem is that the watch mode "freezes", since we probably need to define our own problem matcher for VSCode to handle the messages from watch (currently, the matcher does not recognize incoming messages, it assumes that the command has not yet finished - however, it can wait forever due to the watch mode). The watch build should support the following:
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