intellij-rainbow-brackets VS Grammar-Kit

Plugin Name Plugin URL Apidog Fast Request https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/25925-apidog-fast-request--auto-detect-endpoints-http-rest-client JetBrains AI Assistant https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22282-jetbrains-ai-assistant Lombok https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6317-lombok SonarLint https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7973-sonarqube-for-ide Save Actions https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7642-save-actions Key Promoter X https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9792-key-promoter-x CodeGlance https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7275-codeglance Rainbow Brackets https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets Translation https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8579-translation JRebel https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4441-jrebel-and-xrebel

Don't forget Rainbow Brackets

Rainbow brackets, a must-have plugin

Looks like it is opensource, so you could just rebuild for yourself.

⮕ IntelliJ plugin

The codebase usually gets bigger and bigger and you should take care of nested for loops or some other nested function scopes. This plugin will color every scope you have with the different brackets color so you can easily track in which scope you are working. Read more about this plugin.

Rainbow brackets - just like bracket pair colorizer in vscode.

The class implements the interface - com.intellij.CodeInsight.daemon.impl.HighlightVisitor. The implementation can be viewed here. The coloring takes place in the com.github.izhangzhihao.rainbow.brackets method.visitor.RainbowHighlightVisitor#setHighlightInfo

I offer, again, my JetBrains GrammarKit counterpoint from the last time that assertion came up <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38192427>

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I consider the JetBrains parsing system to be world class and they seem to hand-write very few (instead building on this system: https://github.com/JetBrains/Grammar-Kit#readme )

- https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/23... (the parser I'll concede, as they do seem to be hand-rolling that part)

- https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/23... (same for its parser)

- https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/23... and https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/23...

- https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins/blob/idea/233.... and https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins/blob/idea/233....

I want to start adding support for Lua derivatives to my IDE (which adds static type checking to Lua - inference, structural & nominal types, generics etc. (Luanalysis - https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis/)

I feel like plugin support would be best but I've no idea how that's supposed to work in the presence of a predefined grammar. There's also so many variants I don't think there's a good way to build composite grammar.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to extend language parsing? For reference, I'm using https://github.com/JetBrains/Grammar-Kit.

In IDEA, code generation by the GrammarKit plugin is mainly used to create a parser. Unfortunately, there is not much documentation about it and it is only presented in Tutorial and HOWTO.

Luanalysis is built atop https://github.com/JetBrains/Grammar-Kit, so can't eaisly be integrated in other languages servers.