The Python Tools for Visual Studio are developed by MS, but are completely open source, so I guess one might be able to get all the info on how to develop a new language plugin for VS from that code.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Kelman Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 3:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [julia-users] Re: Julia and Microsoft Visual Studio No, this doesn't exist yet as far as I know. I have no idea how plugins / syntax extensions to Visual Studio work. I'm pretty sure the Python Tools for Visual Studio plugin is developed by Microsoft, Julia has nowhere near that level of official involvement from Microsoft that I know of. The recent announcement of Visual Studio Community Edition being freely available for open-source work means this might be worth pursuing if you're really interested in using Visual Studio as an IDE for Julia. Express never supported plugins, but the community edition does. Tying into Visual Studio's debugger would probably be very hard. Maybe it would work okay if your Julia executable is compiled with MSVC, but that only barely functions right now - a few key LLVM intrinsics-related pieces are broken. Should improve with future versions of LLVM. On Thursday, November 27, 2014 7:37:24 PM UTC-8, Pileas wrote: I am experimenting a bit with different text editors and IDEs. So far I have been quite happy with Atom editor, but there you need to always use the command line to execute the code (I have installed a `terminal` package that calls the bash quite quickly in Atom). I was wondering if there is a package or something for Julia that we can install so that Visual Studio recognizes the language, like the one that exists for Python. I believe that this may help a lot in the debigging as well, since it will be easier to see and will save some time.
