A few ideas

[metaleap]

Heya, new fan here, ZLS is looking real good in action!

I installed it yesterday and used its "Install Zig" feature to install 0.11.0, didn't want "Nightly". I love this feature of an extension-managed download-install-update lifecycle. Well, a message that keeps popping up today (but not yesterday) is:

Zig 0.11.0 is older than ZLS 0.12.0-dev.105+5405178. Update Zig to avoid unexpected behavior.

Idea: since ZLS offers this extension-managed Zig-keeping, it could offer an option (command or button-on-the-above-quoted-prompt) to install exactly the very version it so suggests (since the offered "Nightly" might be already newer and thus also risk "unexpected behavior"). (In case that has binaries stashed somewhere of course, maybe non-0.x.0 versions don't?)

With that out the way, some more sideshow stuff:

• In addition to zig.buildOnSave, an optional (default false) zig.testOnSave would be something real neat. Might try to devise a PR on that eventually unless someone else is already itching to cook that up now, or unless that somehow goes against, dunno, scope/philosophy or sth =) of course, tests can have the edge-case of using stdin so I guess such a feature would omit the zig test call for such files on principle.

  • since it would seem that zig test error-message formatting is just like the compilation one, I'd also go for diagnostics publishing into VSC's 'Problems' panel.

• Of course that also suggests a command / code-lens / quick-action or similar ux affordance to run test on file or package, regardless of any "on save" or not.

• Not an idea, but since I'm already typing: auto-complete seems to only work at my end when at the end of the line. Ie. it works when the line is merely std. or pkg.foo. etc, but when I try to trigger it (ctrl+space at my end) say at the first dot of std.debug.print, then 'No suggestions.' This might be a known Issue? If so I haven't found it at a glance... guess the ugly-quick'n'dirty fix would be for the autocomplete handler to only consider what's to the left of the caret (since that works, ie when I manually cut out what's to the right of the caret) 😁

[Vexu]

I'm working on being able to install specific version of ZLS in ziglang/vscode-zig#138 but I need Auguste to update the release tarballs and he's been on a work trip.

[SuperAuguste]

Back from the work trip @Vexu, working on this now :)