The goal of adding in formatting to our VSCode extension was to get to a place where developers have automated tooling to help them, and others, write consistent code.
While we have some options to help fine-tune the visual appearance (i.e. "style" of your code), the spacing and more mechanical display is going to be the same for every user.
As-is, we have some options that provide a balance with legacy controls you had in the IDL Workbench, but we likely won't add any more controls unless there are new language-level features that get added.
If you want to learn more about the spirit of our decision, check out the design philosophy of Prettier, which we modeled the IDL formatting after.
Formatting
Information
For those new to formatting their IDL code, we have several resources for you to learn how the different options work.
See Configuration and Setup for more information.
Background and Design
The goal of adding in formatting to our VSCode extension was to get to a place where developers have automated tooling to help them, and others, write consistent code.
While we have some options to help fine-tune the visual appearance (i.e. "style" of your code), the spacing and more mechanical display is going to be the same for every user.
As-is, we have some options that provide a balance with legacy controls you had in the IDL Workbench, but we likely won't add any more controls unless there are new language-level features that get added.
If you want to learn more about the spirit of our decision, check out the design philosophy of Prettier, which we modeled the IDL formatting after.