Wish coding b4x in vscode?

[abedcode]

Hi, @Erel i got back to mobile dev(B4A) after a while. been doing web dev in IDEs like vscode. i know how awesome b4x is, but the IDE doesn't feel like a modern tool. can we not code b4x in vscode with autocompletion, linting & formatting? just like how flutter does it?
when i change a layout, git just tracks it but can't show diff because it is binary. it would be great if we could code layouts like flutter/html.

or if it is hard or takes time we could have vscode shortcuts?
like opening a module with ctrl+p,
searching in a file context separate from all project,...

i know this isn't something small to ask for, so again, thanks for everything

 

[Sandman]

I know that Erel isn't very open to this idea (it has been suggested several times), but I still imagine we will go that way in a year or two, together with Erel making a full-featured LSP functionality. It just makes so much sense, especially in the age of AI.

 

[aeric]

There are already some vscode extensions for B4X with syntax highlighting, etc.
For text based layout, both B4A and B4J already support json layouts that can sync to binary format.