Add Language: Imba
familyfriendlymikey opened this issue · comments
Language name
URL of example repository
URL of syntax highlighting grammar
Most popular extensions
.imba
Detected language
Plain text
Popularity
- Imba has 5,600 stars on GitHub.
- Imba has 498 dependent repositories on GitHub.
- There are 2,864 .imba files on GitHub.
- The popular programming course website Scrimba is written in Imba.
- If more proof of popularity/usage is required, I will provide more examples.
Pull Request Information
- Here's my fork, grammar compilation failed citing several PCRE errors, despite syntax highlighting working in VSCode.
- Here's the source of the provided sample, MIT license.
Next Steps
In CONTRIBUTING.md it says
If problems are found, please report them to the grammar maintainer
I would very much appreciate some guidance on next steps. Thank you.
There are 2,864 .imba files on GitHub.
I wonder how many files would show up if private repos could be counted too.
Also, as Imba requires much less configuration, and can express styling, markup and logic in a single language (and thus, a single file), the number of Imba files will always be "artifically low".
Crossing my fingers Imba can be included soon! 🤞 🤞
And I was about to suggest Imba too. Cool!
I would very much appreciate some guidance on next steps. Thank you.
Sure...
Here's my fork, grammar compilation failed citing several PCRE errors, despite syntax highlighting working in VSCode.
If you're seeing errors it's because you're using Oniguruma-specific expressions and/or are using very long expressions. This should be clear in the errors. These work on VSCode because it uses that regex engine which isn't particularly strict, however GitHub uses PCRE for performance reasons. In order to resolve those, you'll need to switch out the Oniguruma-specific expressions for PCRE-compatible expressions and ensure your expressions aren't too long and adhere to PCRE's limits.
@familyfriendlymikey Maybe you could try pointing at
path = vendor/grammars/language-imba
url = https://github.com/somebee/language-imba
Instead of
path = vendor/grammars/vscode-imba
url = https://github.com/imba/vscode-imba.git
And see if it passes then? Would love to see imba included at some point!