Host textmate definition for kotlin language

[jdneo]

Buildship recently added experimental feature -- a language server for the *.kts files, which works for the gradle kts scripts.

It introduces a textmate definition for kotlin language: https://github.com/eclipse/buildship/blob/master/org.eclipse.buildship.kotlindsl.provider/kotlin.tmLanguage.json

Should we consider hosting this file in the extension? Currently there is no hightlighting when user opens *.kts files.

[jdneo]

@rgrunber BTW, I saw we already host definitions for .java and .properties. While the VS Code repo also has .java hosted. I forgot the story to re-host another .java definition. Could you remind me about that?

[rgrunber]

See microsoft/vscode#187725 (comment), #3200, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/188361/files .

Basically the original grammar provided by atom/language-java became read only at the end of 2022. This was the one VS Code was using. We raised an issue about fixing it in VS Code (we had some proposed improvements) but the proposal was for vscode-java to "own" the grammar. Now VS Code seems to be updating based on ours.

I think it makes sense to host the kotlin grammar it in vscode-java.

[jdneo]

Thank you for the explanation!