Writing Visual Studio Code Syntaxes in Monarch

Question

The VSCode documentation contains details on how to create new colorizers using .tmLanguage files. The Monaco editor which VSCode uses has support for defining syntax highlighters using the JSON-based Monarch format, but I can't see how to use Monarch for defining syntaxes in VSCode extensions.

Is there a way to define a new VSCode syntax using the Monarch format rather than textmate style language files?

Winnipegosis

Answer 1

No, VSCode currently only supports the .tmLanguage format. To quote one of the team members in #216:

First we had Monarch support as well, but before the API deadline decided to go fully for text mate to keep the API simple.

Nissen