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leodevbro / vscode-blockman

VSCode extension to highlight nested code blocks
https://github.com/leodevbro/vscode-blockman
MIT License
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Suggestion: how about making this beautiful work available on IntelliJ IDEA? #62

Open makiwata opened 2 years ago

makiwata commented 2 years ago

I was looking for this kind of extension for so long, you are awesome.

However I use IntelliJ IDEA for Java, as a lot of other coders or newbies just like me. Unfortunately I know nothing about plugin development. Is there any chance that your work will be available as an IntelliJ IDEA extension as well?

Thank you very much, have a nice day!

leodevbro commented 2 years ago

Huge thanks for your feedback. I really want to make Blockman work in other IDEs too, but I guess it seems kinda hard for now. Blockman is written in TypeScript/JavaScript and it is using npm (node) libraries for parsing/tokenizing code files and for other things. IntelliJ requires Java (I guess) for building a plugin, so, node environment and Java environment seems very incompatible to each other. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe someone can help me to make them compatible, or maybe there is some other solution to implement Blockman extension code into IntelliJ environment without manually re-writing TypeScript code into Java code. Currently my time is limited, so I cannot investigate these things right now (I guess it will take weeks if not months), but maybe other people can help me with their experience and knowledge.