As someone who experiments with different programming languages and environments, the following are the requirements I look for in IDE integration, whether for Visual Studio Code, or another IDE.
- "Run" command that runs a sample piece of code, given an entry point, and exits when it's done. Be able to do this multiple times, after making changes to the source in the editor.
- Run under a debugger. Place a break-point somewhere in the executation path, hit F5, and make sure it breaks there. Continuing after that, should go to the end and exit (not remain in the debugger)
- Run a set of tests.
- Place a breakpoint in any test or production code that's in the execution path of a test, run a set of tests (all tests), and hit the breakpoint on the first test that hits it.
- Be able to run an individual test.
- Be able to debug an individual test, and break where a breakpoint is set.
- Syntax highlighting
- Navigate to source of a a build error
- Navigate to source from excepton during debugging
- Simple refactoring (rename, extract, inline)
- Code-coverage
- Performance testing (CPU, Memory, I/O)
- Node, Haxe, Zig, C++, Haskell, Lua, Clojure, Racket, Janet, OCaml, Dart, Nim, Kotlin, C#, Python, PowerShell, Rust, C++, Go, Deno, WASI (Emscripten, C#, Rust, AssemlbyScript)
I wasn't keeping track of which passed and which didn't. Maybe I'll start doing that.
Awesome wishlist!