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Janet is a small language that can be conveniently installed and used just by copying a single binary, with no other dependencies or libraries.

However, the formatting in the VS Code extension only works if spork is installed. To install spork, jpm has to be installed.

It's trivial to modify the extension so that it runs independently on jpm or spork, requiring just the janet binary. I think this would make it easier to use the extension for people who are e.g. just trying Janet out and do not (yet) even know what jpm or spork is.

After having cloned the repo into ~/.vscode/extensions it doesn't show up in my Extensions tab, so I can't enable it.

Looked around in vscode docs but couldn't find a way to enable it outside generating some sort of installation file.

Is there any particular reason for this? Missing features?

Even if an existing janet repl exists from a previous Janet: Evaluate expression or Janet: Start REPL, a new one is created every time Janet: Evaluate expression is invoked.

I'm sure that I'm missing something obvious (new to Janet and VS Code), but are there any settings or installation steps to use the keyboard shortcut to evaluate an expression (on macOS)?

There is no command history in the Janet REPL started from the extension. It also lacks autocompletion too.

Expected
When clicking Up Arrow in Janet REPL, I should see previous command.

Actual
When clicking Up Arrow in Janet REPL, I see ^[[A symbols.

I've tracked it to -s flag of the REPL started. I don't know if it is there for a specific purpose, but running REPL without it fixes the issue.

It would be awesome if you could also publish this extension to open-vsx.org. This would make it much easier to install on forks of VSCode like VSCodium, which are not allowed to use the official marketplace.

https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Publishing-Extensions