KPL Language Support

Syntax highlighting and language support for the Kernel Programming Language (kpl) and the compiled Blitz Assembly Language (blitz-asm) from the Blitz System (v2.0) in Visual Studio Code.

Links: Code Examples, KPL Overview, Context Free Language, and Instruction Set,

Features

• Full syntax highlighting for KPL (.k, .h) and Blitz Assembly (.s) files
• Smart bracket matching and autoclosing
• Code folding
• Comment toggling
• Auto-indentation for code blocks
• Syntax Highlighting Support for:
  • Classes and interfaces
  • Functions and methods
  • Control structures
  • Type declarations
  • Error handling
  • Parameterized classes
  • Function types and pointers
• A formatter for the blitz-asm language files
• A basic parser for the kpl language

Installation

1. Open VS Code
2. Press Ctrl+P / Cmd+P to open the Quick Open dialog
3. Type ext install kpl-linter
4. Press Enter

Requirements

VS Code 1.96.0 or higher

Known Issues

Please report any issues on the GitHub repository.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Release Notes

1.0.0

Basic kpl parsing and validation

0.1.0

Added kpl autocompletion features, fixed clr command

0.0.9

Added constants checking to the KPL language syntax highlighting

0.0.8

Added single quote string to the Blitz Assembly Language syntax highlighting

0.0.7

Added btst instruction hotfix

0.0.6

Added basic linting and hover support for Blitz Assembly files

0.0.5

Added CI/CD for faster development

0.0.4

Added Blitz Assembly formatter with support for:

• Comment alignment and label-based indentation
• Formatting instructions, labels, and comments with customizable tab spacing
• Automatic handling of label lines and in-line comments

0.0.3

Added Blitz Assembly support with syntax highlighting, smart indentation, and more.

0.0.2

Fixed package extensions

0.0.1

Initial release of KPL Language Support:

• Basic syntax highlighting
• Code block detection
• Smart indentation
• Bracket matching

TODO

Features

• Auto-closing statements (e.g., if and endIf)
• Auto-completion for common statements/fields
• kpl formatter
• Parse kpl into an ast
  • tokenizer with look aheads based on rules for kpl CFL
  • basic token validation
  • store tokens into symbolTable
  • code auto-completion
  • hover support

Bugs

• add clr blitz-asm command
• fix duplicating labels in blitz-asm symbolManager

License

MIT