CodeMirror plugin for Zig

Exercism
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1

There was a recent Discord conversation with a request for Dynamic syntax highlighting for Zig.

Claude generates a plugin that seems reasonable: prototype

Can we create a CodeMirror plugin repo for Zig.

2

This is something I’d like to follow up with for my tracks. What kind of prompt did you use for this? I worked in Antigravity (Gemini) and created one for GNU awk. It didn’t use bun though. Is that something you asked for?

3

Install bun locally.

For a plugin starting point, I downloaded a clone of exercism/generic-codemirror-lang, renamed the directory, and deleted the .git subdirectory.

Resources I included in the prompt:

  1. The link https://exercism.org/docs/building/tracks/new/syntax-highlighting/dynamic

  2. A directory with the language implementation (compiler source).

  3. A directory with some existing exercism/codemirror-lang-* implementations, such as

  • codemirror-lang-arturo
  • codemirror-lang-elixir
  • codemirror-lang-gleam
  • codemirror-lang-uiua
  • codemirror-lang-wren

I never mentioned bun in the prompt.

4

Does the Code Mirror plugin setup we use only for syntax highlighting? Vim-like bindings might be useful in the Vim script editor. Navigating between symbolic expressions would be nifty for the Lispy tracks.

5

Sexp navigation might be feasible for Lispy tracks.

Vim mode? Not with a language plugin.