The first public version of Kode Studio is out, Github hosts the downloads. Kode Studio is a fork of Visual Studio Code, optimized for Kha (Kore support will also be added). This is a very early version of Kode Studio but features debugging support which is in many ways superior to anything else currently around for Haxe based development, based on VSCode's Chrome debugger, Haxe's JavaScript target and a modified HTML5 target in Kha. It's cross-platform, very fast (runtime and compile time) and very convenient (no additional software required).

To get started with Kode Studio, just unzip the archive, start the executable and open a directory (File -> Open Folder) containing a Kha project - or open an empty folder and hit the "Init Kha Project" command (Press F1, type Kha, click it).

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Well, this is certainly awesome.

Will the vscode-haxe-plugins work inside Kode Studio?

plugins should work fine. themes do, so plugins should.

KodeStudio is just a haxed version of vscode, so its worth trying

The vscode-haxe plugin is integrated.

I just wanted to say this is an extremely exciting development! Thanks for all the great work.

Oh thank you!

Thanks mate !!

I'm a little late to the party but this is awesome, thanks! Makes it super easy to get a Kha project up and running. Debugging is much better than Flash Develop too. Great work!

@Robert Hi, I was just wondering if you recommend those of us following Kode Studios's development keenly to build from source to keep up-to-date? Is the GitHub repo generally stable?

I only really ask because I notice there's apparently been 2000+ commits according to GitHub since the most recent download release, which makes me wonder what cool new features I might be missing out on!

And out of curiosity, in the longer term, is the plan to use a similar self-updating mechanism to what other Electron-based projects such as Atom and VS Code use?

Cheers!

No need to build from source, I regularly update the build repositories (KodeStudio-win32 and so on). Not much new this month, I mainly merged VSCode 1.0 and that's were all those commits came from. Want to implement an update mechanism but for now the answer to that also are the build repositories.

@Robert Ahha, yes that would explain the 1000s of commits! Great to hear that you've merged VSCode 1.0 in so quickly. Thanks for keeping the build repositories up-to-date - I shall keep an eye on the Downloads page then.

After testing various version of Kode Studio.

Would it not be more beneficial to provide an extension for VsCode instead of forking it ? I'm eager to work with Kha but not as much of working with KodeStudio after what i've seen.

Are you the guy from github with that weird issue on Linux? And sorry, no plans for that. There are currently one or two persons who have issues as far as I know (depending on whether or not you are that same person) - might sound harsh but that's not enough for a change in strategy.

Guilty

I was mostly dissappointed because i wanted to started writing code based on Kha asap.

Sorry about that, but will do my best to fix that...