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Sample code illustrating the VS Code extension API.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2020-05-22 · latest 2025-06-28

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  1. …[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/chat [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/m...
    comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-06-28 · in Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
  2. …it's not as if there isn't a huge API surface for the editor (the sample extensions repo is huge - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples ), and there are already samples out there to extend the Copilot functionality:…
  3. …it's hard to beat VS Code. [0]: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples [2]: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/blob/master...
  4. …fast - most of the time you will lose syntax highlighting because things can't keep up. see, e.g., https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/issues... Again, yes, you could make a compiler for every language which supports a…
  5. …(unless I missed it?). 1. https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi... 2. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/tree/m... 3. https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/255
    comment by jjwiseman · 2022-01-28 · in Speeding up VSCode extensions in 2022
  6. …Both have their ups and downs, largely dependent on the size and frequency of the task at hand. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/m...
    comment by meetups323 · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  7. Wouldn't be hard to adapt this to be literally one of your VS Code extensions. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/m...