Set up editor support

Goal: get syntax highlighting, diagnostics, hover, and go-to-definition in your editor.

VS Code

The vscode-bynk extension provides syntax highlighting plus live language features backed by the bynkc-lsp language server.

1. Build the language server from the workspace root:

cargo build --release -p bynk-lsp

This produces target/release/bynkc-lsp. Put it on your PATH, or point the extension at it with the bynk.executablePath setting.

2. Build and install the extension from the vscode-bynk/ directory:

cd vscode-bynk
npm install
npm run package
code --install-extension bynk-vscode-*.vsix

The extension activates on .bynk files and on any workspace containing a bynk.toml. You then get syntax highlighting, live diagnostics, hover with type signatures, go-to-definition, and format-on-save (honouring editor.formatOnSave).

Settings

Setting	Default	Purpose
bynk.executablePath	bynkc-lsp	Path to the language-server binary.
bynk.trace.server	off	Trace LSP traffic (off / messages / verbose) in the “Bynk LSP” output channel.

Other editors

Any editor with a generic LSP client can use bynkc-lsp. Syntax highlighting is also available through the tree-sitter-bynk grammar.

Related

• Format your code with bynk-fmt.
• Reference: bynk-lsp.