Some feedback on CodeTools from various places.

From Hacker News comments

There is no first-class support for daily-driver editing (vscode, emacs etc etc) for large-scale projects (other than an ancient eclipse package). Brenton Bostick at Wolfram has done some truly first class work in closing this gap though.

From MSE comments

Edit: IDE/editor support is getting better with Mr. Brenton Bostick’s effort on plugins for VSCode and Sublime using Microsoft’s Language Server Protocol.

From YouTube

Very nice talk!

This is cool stuff.

From customers

I think what Brenton is working on is really important – especially in light of Stephen’s call to have the community support the language “in the wild”. Brenton’s work is the literal touch point for the community of folks developing real-world applications using the language. Given Stephen’s remarks he should have first-class support within the company to make this happen.

Not sure next steps here – but just wanted to make you aware of Brenton’s efforts as what he is working on is the direct bridge that will translate Stephen’s vision for broader deployment and engagement with the language into reality

“Your work on “Analyze” ups the quality of my code and is a major benefit.”

“This is useful. I’ve left a stray Echo in there before.”

From internal users

“I just set up your VSCode extension and am loving the linter!”

“Have run this, and it looks fabulous. This is so great. Thanks a bunch.

“A gold star for you today. :-)”

“Nice work.”

“Thanks for catching these Brenton.”

“Thanks for finding and fixing these!!!”

“Thanks again for helping me get things sorted out! I think my whole team is now going to be using VSC at least in part.”

“Thanks for catching this.”

“Okay, this linter is powerful.”

“AND MANY THANKS ! Those sublimes’ code tools are really helping !”

“This is great work you’re doing Brenton. I’m glad someone is doing it.”

“Wow, amazing work (and scary results….)”

“Syntax coloring looks very nice! I will play around with it more.”

“Nice find!”

“Cool. These would never be found for the rest of time without a linter.”

“Omg I love this! “

“Your linter is clearly smarter than me. Can I start assigning Integrate bugs to your linter?”

“Nice work @brenton. I’ll have a look. Heck, I feel like I almost understand the code now.”