Compare current syntax highlight with TextMate grammars #70
Description
VSCode uses TextMate grammar for its syntax highlighting.
Benefits:
- Implementation already available
- Less maintenance when Solidity language changes occur
Drawbacks:
- Slower
- Doesn't handle partial code, as it is required in errors and warnings.
- Maybe difficult to integrate line/column indicator for warnings and errors
We should :
- Determine how much slower the TextMate implementation is.
- Examine the possibility of removing partial code requirements. i.e. Syntax highlight the whole file before extracting the snippet of lines of context for the error/warning. Measure the impact on speed of this approach.
- Estimate the effort necessary for adding line/column indicators.
- Estimate total effort of migrating to TextMate syntax highlighting
Solidity syntax highlight example currently used in VSCode solidity extension: https://github.com/juanfranblanco/vscode-solidity/blob/master/syntaxes/solidity.json