Some time ago a customer posted in the Synergy/DE Ideas forum suggesting that a Synergy DBL language plug-in should be created for the increasingly popular Visual Studio Code editor. Over course of the next few months the post received a significant number of votes, and we also started hearing the same request from others.

Later we heard from the original customer that they had started to define some basic language integration themselves, offered to share that initial code, and agreed that it could be open sourced.

At this time we are pleased to announce that initial support for DBL in VS Code is live! We have developed this functionality as an open source project on GitHub (https://github.com/Synergex/vscode-synergydbl) and welcome your feedback and your contributions.

If you just want to try the extension you can search for “Synergy” in the extension marketplace inside of VS Code, or download and install the VSIX from the GitHub Releases page. If you do try the extension out, and have questions or problems, please use the GitHub Issues page to let us know.

The initial scope of the extension is fairly limited, but we have been using the colorization locally for a while now and it makes a huge difference when you just need to do a quick edit to a source file. We are looking forward to seeing what everyone else has to contribute.