[Discussion] Possible solution to fix delays and versioning confusion: Merge `typescript-deno-plugin` into `vscode_deno`?

Versioning confusion

At the moment we have:

The vscode_deno 1.24.0 official plugin that depends on, and is currently bundled with the 3rd party typescript-deno-plugin 1.29

• typescript-deno-plugin v1.29.0 was released 19 days ago
• It is now up to version v1.31.0 which was released 8 days ago. vscode_deno 1.24.0 still includes typescript-deno-plugin 1.29, not the new one.

There is no changelog for vscode_deno https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/releases

And the VS Marketplace one does not make sense: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/denoland.vscode-deno/changelog

Moved from https://github.com/justjavac/vscode-deno to https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno in order to have an “official” Deno plugin. Thank you 迷渡!

Problems of having a split codebase

It seems half the bug fixes are more relevant to the typescript-deno-plugin, which is not official and is not where users are directed to for reporting issues. If they do get through to that repo, and get the bug fixed, then they don’t get merged into the vscode_deno extension right away. There is a random time-lapse that means all the error reports on the two different repos are out of sync.

I don’t want to sound like I am complaining, and really appreciate the work @justjavac and others are doing, but something seems fundamentally wrong with the way this extension is setup and operates.

There should be one central place that people report bugs, and at least a few different people with the authority to accept the pull requests for the official Deno plugin as a whole, not split up. Having the extension split over two separate codebases, one official and the other 3rd party seems very complicated and unnecessary.

I spent a while this morning puzzling over why my JS was getting treated like it was TS even with "deno.enable": false. When I turn off the extension then it works! I think this bug was fixed in typescript-deno-plugin v1.30.0, 9 days ago https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/issues/60, but I don’t know as it is not yet merged into vscode_deno

I hope this issue has not been too confused, but I am very confused by the whole VS Code Deno extension situation.

THANKS again to everyone involved!

[justjavac]

it is a good idea, typescript-deno-plugin is not only used in vscode, but also used by vim and idea. This week I will transfer this repo.

build typescript-deno-plugin into the vscode plugin, and we still need to publish typescript-deno-plugin to npm

[lucacasonato]

This is merged in the repo now.