Project Features

HLSL language server will provide following features:

• Code Validation & Errors
• Code Completion / Autosuggestion
• Goto Definition
• Hover to see documentation
• Code formatting
• Refactoring (Renaming)
• Preprocessor support for all above features
• In place macro expansion

Suggested features

• Warnings and Suggestions based on performance and branching of the program, providing branchless/optimised code when possible.
• Further refactoring (extract to method definition, extract expression to variable).

Project Tasks

• Client-server communication (done)
• Language Parser (wip)
• Editor workspace management
• Syntax features

Editor Integration

Install the language server in your $PATH.

Kakoune (using kakoune-lsp)

In the lsp configuration file, add

hook -group lsp-filetype-hlsl global BufSetOption filetype=hlsl %{
    set-option buffer lsp_servers %{
        [hlsl-language-server]
        root_globs = [ "*.hlsl", "*.fx" ]
        command = "hlslls"
    }
}