VSCode plugin to replace ESTK

[Davide_Barranca]

As previously announced by Adobe, it is now available for downloading the version 1.0 of the official ExtendScript ToolKit replacement  

Long story short, ESTK won't run anymore when macOS is going to definitely deprecate 32bit apps in a few months, so Adobe had to come up with an alternative: a Visual Studio Code plugin. The Mac version is final, Windows' still has to be considered a beta.

See ExtendScript Debugger for Visual Studio Code Public Release for the details!

Davide

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[maxwyss]

I just wonder how many Mac-based developers are using Visual Studio.

If anything, it would have to be a connection to Xcode.

… or support for BBEdit.

Looks to me as if they listened to some big-enterprise market research companies.

[Chuck Uebele]

Thanks, Davide.

[JJMack]

Davide

Have you used it if so how well does the beta work?

I do not use  ESTK for the  debuggers has thing jumping all over its UI windows that distracts me.  And I have also be bitten by bugs in it.  I only hack at  Photoshop Scripting using Notepad ++ and  Photoshop.  

I  have never installed Visual Studio Code.  I know its free but I'm not  a code developer anymore.  Do you think that Adobe extension for  Visual Studio Code would be of any use to me.  The only Part of ESTK  I ever use is F1 its object browser so I can see what support object items have.

[Kukurykus]

Visual Studio ESTK version doesn't have Objects browser or I didn't understand what they meant in article.

Anyway I use ESTK for years and didn't see any bugs, which of them you mean?

[JJMack]

I stopped using it in the CS2 timeframe you can't expect me to remember bugs the bit me back then.

[Davide_Barranca]

JJMack , I've had few bumps in the PR (VSCode not connecting), I still have to test thoroughly the 1.0.

I have to say that a growing number of devs are using VSCode, which is quite good – I've switched to it from Atom some time ago and I'm quite pleased.

The new plugin lacks the Object Browser, so for that you're out of luck, alas.

Also, to date, there is no code completion, unless you install and tweak Pravdomil Types-for-Adobe, which is a TypeScript extension (but you can make it work even if you don't use TS).

I've asked for commitment on Adobe's side to implement that part, which IMHO is fundamental, but I've not heard any official statement in this regard.

Davide