Discussion: TextMate bundles

[iahung3]

This will be something very large to implement, but it will be very useful in the long term, too. It is becoming a standard now. Even Eclipse IDE added support for it. All of this is thanks to the popularity of VSCode.

@SpartanJ What do you think about this?

[SpartanJ]

There are a few steps that must be done before being able to support bundles. First ecode must support regex in language grammars. Then it must support TextMate language grammars. But before doing that I need to analice the performance of using language grammars with regex with PCRE2. All of this is a good amount of work, to do all this work there must be a good motivation and must be worth it. As for the moment I don't see any particular example of why we should implement this now (and not later with a more mature editor). The main issue is that I'm working alone on all these features, and I work on my free time just for fun, so almost every feature I add is mostly because I need it. So if you ask me: this sounds great on paper, I would love to do it, but it won't happen soon (except for the regex support, which I want to have it). Currently these are my priorities for big features (and DAP support is the first I want of all of them).