Anchor Language for VS Code

Syntax highlighting and language support for the Anchor programming language - a systems language with Lisp syntax that compiles to C.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for .anc files
• Bracket matching and auto-closing for (), [], ""
• Comment toggling with ; (Ctrl+/ / Cmd+/)
• Indentation support for nested S-expressions

Highlight groups

• Keywords - fn, let, if, while, return, with-arena, struct, cast, sizeof, include, ffi, define-syntax, and more
• Function definitions - name after fn / fn-c
• Macro definitions - name after define-syntax
• Type definitions - name after struct / union / enum
• Builtins - cons, car, cdr, printf, list, null?, kb/mb/gb, type conversions (int->f64, etc.)
• Operators - all prefix arithmetic (+, f+, u+, f32+), comparison (==, <, f>=), bitwise (band, lshift), and logical (&&, ||, !)
• Literals - integers, hex (0xFF), floats, strings with escape sequences, character literals (#\a, #\newline), booleans (#t/#f)
• Reader macros - ', `, ,, ,@, #', #`, #,, #,@

Installation

Manual install

1. Open VS Code
2. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P)
3. Run Developer: Install Extension from Location...
4. Select the vscode-anchor/ directory