Topic: Opensource Announcement for AutoCAD AutoLISP Extension

[Jeff H]

As part of Autodesk Opensource Initiative, we are glad to announce a new member to the family, the “VSCode extension for AutoLISP” which is now Opensource in Github.

https://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2020/08/opensource-announcement-for-autocad-autolisp-extension.html

[JohnK]

Nice.

*click-click*

Typescript?! Who knows typescript?

[Jeff H]

Nice.

*click-click*

Typescript?! Who knows typescript?

I messed with it a little.

[JohnK]

Any good? ...I mean to say: if you were forced to maintain that extension, could you dive-in?, and/or "should" it have been written in C#?, etc.

[Jeff H]

Any good? ...I mean to say: if you were forced to maintain that extension, could you dive-in?, and/or "should" it have been written in C#?, etc.

I could be wrong but guessing VSCODE extension API requires javascript, and Typescript spits out javascript, but enables compile time checking of javascript, .
I dont think you can write extension in C#, but if you can use Typescript then you definitely can do it in just javascript.

It would be neat to have the same thing for AutoLisp a "TypeAutoLisp" I really know nothing about AutoLisp but it would allow something like

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(Interface Point3D (x:Real, y:Real, z:Real))Now this would error

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(setq pnt:Point3D (5, 8, "H"))