Live-share: Support collaboration on projects using additional languages and application types

[Chuxel]

The preview currently focuses on ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web applications/services along with Node.js based web applications. While syntax highlighting and other features may work broadly, particular attention has been paid to language support for C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. See language and platform support for details.

We intend to improve support additional languages and non-web based application types over time.

Sound off and comment or 👍 (upvote) below on the languages / frameworks / app types you are most interested in seeing supported.

[vchuravy]

Julia support would be great!

[biozal]

Support for Xamarin in VS for Mac/VS for PC - I don't see it in the platform support list - but it's the first thing I plan on testing.

[colek42]

Go, Code completion does not work. Delve would be sweet too!

[lostintangent]

@colek42 Delve support is actually already there! If you start a debugging session in VS Code, and have a guest join in, you should see collaborative debugging working well. Code completion is coming though.

[andybond006]

Will this extension eventually come to SQL Operations Studio as well? I realize that it is not quite a finished product yet, but collaborative writing of SQL Stored Procedures would be something that I am very interested in!

[ashishsc]

We would love language support for Elm (web-based)!

Edit: Sorry I didn't realize. I guess it does work pretty well. it'd be nice of elm had a language server implementation fully built as a side note : )

[ashishsc]

We would also love support for Haskell! Thanks for your work on this!

[lostintangent]

@ashishsc Are you using VS code? If so, then both Elm and Haskell should actually support both language services and debugging for guests. Let us know if you’re experiencing any issues.

[owlstack]

Adding another comment for support for Xamarin apps as I didn't see it on the list either. Thanks! Just tried it with a Xamarin app codebase though. While the other people saw all my Xamarin code in his VS Code environment and was able to set breakpoints and edit code, not sure he can do much else besides that (of course due to VS Code and not full IDE for Xamarin). Would it work for VS for Mac on one side vs VS for PC on the other side for Xamarin? That would be cool and it would be nice to see them run the app from their end while I have the main codebase as well.

[spicydonuts]

PureScript please! (willing to help if I can)
Extension: vscode-ide-purescript

[lostintangent]

@spicydonuts Hey! PureScript should actually be fully supported today :) If you share a PureScript project, guests should receive language support from the host. Are you seeing otherwise?

[spicydonuts]

Oh that's great. I tried it once and couldn't get any ide-purescript stuff to show up on the guest but I'll try it again. Do both people need to have ide-purescript installed?

[lostintangent]

@spicydonuts Only the host should need to have the PureScript extension installed. That way, guests can take advantage of any language support and debugging (if a language extension supports it) from the guest, without any extra setup 👍

[lostintangent]

I’m going to close this issue since we already have universal language support in VS Code, and should start tracking specific language and platform requests via other issues.

[lostintangent]

FYI, Python support in Visual Studio shipped in VS 2019 Preview 2, so we'd love to hear folks feedback on the experience.

[AlexFedotovComputing]

Support for Fortran debugging, please. We have a lot of scientific open codes and LS would greatly decrease the amount of pain