[Motoko] Syntax Highlighting/Recommendations on IDE?

[magpie_lover]

Using Atom right now, but the syntax highlighting part is a problem as we don’t have a “language-motoko” package yet. After following this link, I was able to make Atom recognise .mo files as .js files

i.e added the following to the config.cson

"source.js": [
        "mo"
      ]

Not great, but better than no highlighting at all.
Wondering if there are better solutions than this? What IDE(s) are you guys using?

[cryptoschindler]

you could use this with vscode for syntax highlighting!

Motoko grammar/parser code

i can now install the motoko language extension for vscode, seems to work https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BlockInsight.dfinity although it looks like this is only a color theme for highlighting

[cryptoschindler]

And this for linting:

Motoko extension for VSCode!

I hacked this little extension together to get code completion and compiler warnings with the dfx _language-service command. This has been only tested on 0.5.2 and assumes your dfx binary lives in /usr/local/bin/dfx (this should be easy to fix). If you need to change the directory, use which dfx to get the correct path open ~/.vscode/extensions/motoko-lsp-client.motoko-lsp-client-{the-current-version-of-the-extension}/client/out/extension.js modify the path in line 12 to the output of which…