feature request: Atom and VSCode mirrors

[rattrayalex-stripe]

Hi,

There are tools which can convert sublime text syntax packages to work with Atom and VSCode. These tools are increasingly popular for frontend development.

babel-sublime is the root of the core syntaxes for both atom and vscode packages, and according to babel/babel-sublime#328 (comment) it is unmaintained.

Thoughts?

[borela]

In the past I considered just upgrading the babel sublime through pull requests but the requirement of it being in tmlanguage(to support atom and vscode) is what stopped me.

I was hopping atom/vscode would support the sublime syntax someday as it had more features and a clearer syntax than the tmlanguage.

I am not sure if they are compatible nowadays but if they are, we could create a build script to continue maintaining in the sublime syntax format but compile it to tmlanguage to support atom/vscode too.

[rattrayalex-stripe]

Ah, sorry, I assumed this used tmlanguage but did not check. Apologies.

Have you raised an issue on the vscode repo asking for that? Or does one exist? Might be good to link back to it here.

[borela]

In the past other people suggested adding support for vscode
microsoft/vscode#5408

and aparentently atom is about to support it but I didn't find any pull request on the matter
atom/first-mate#50

I really hope they add support for it because the sublime syntax + the fact I broke into many small files, makes debugging the syntax a lot easier.