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Visual Studio Code August 2021

Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code August 2021 Release (1.60)
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High performance bracket pair colorization#


The editor now supports native bracket pair colorization:


Side by side comparison with bracket pair colorization on and off



Bracket pair colorization can be enabled by setting "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true. All colors are themeable and up to six colors can be configured.


We implemented this feature to address performance issues of the famous Bracket Pair Colorizer extension by CoenraadS.


Now, even changes in huge documents are reflected immediately:


Colorization of brackets at the top and bottom of a large file
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I've been waiting for this for 2.5 long years. How young was I?? So pure, so innocent, so carefree, and so blissful back then. The performance issue back then was SUCH A HASSLE, you have no idea how painful it is to wait 2 minutes for a 42000+ lines long source file to be updated for a single pair of brackets to be updated with the right matching color. EACH!

FINALLY, we now have colorful brackets. Angled, curly, and squared, they are all now colorized with 6 different color variations we can choose from!

Anyone else excited?
 
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this is almost as exciting as the commodore PET 4000 having a base ram of 8kb with options to upgrade to 32kb right from the get go
 
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Just us8ng vscode for PowerShell scripts for work, but d8d not know that. Nice
 
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NetMapel said:
I have been using this extension for a while. I guess it's time to retire it?
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[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - A customizable extension for colorizing matching brackets
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Retire it. That extension hasn't been updated for 2 years since the prominent issue of the colorizing brackets engine being suboptimal and causing performance issues with VS Code back then.
 
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Holy shit I'm just now realizing that no editor I've ever used has had this. What the actual hell? It seems so obvious and useful but the OP is literally the first time I've seen this.
 
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delete12345 said:
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Visual Studio Code August 2021

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I've been waiting for this for 2.5 long years. How young was I?? So pure, so innocent, so carefree, and so blissful back then. The performance issue back then was SUCH A HASSLE, you have no idea how painful it is to wait 2 minutes for a 42000+ lines long source file to be updated for a single pair of brackets to be updated with the right matching color. EACH!

FINALLY, we now have colorful brackets. Angled, curly, and squared, they are all now colorized with 6 different color variations we can choose from!

Anyone else excited?
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oh babyyyy
 
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also autodetect language for occasional users is fine :)
no longer have to save my file first as powershell or any other language, i can just create a new tab and paste my code already :)
 
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Ugh this is cool and I wish I could be happy about this but I spent my whole work day trying to figure out why I can't copy/paste files using Remote SSH. 😡
 
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I'm so set in my ways I'm using notepad++. I've had VS code as my primary editor in my mental backlog for over a year.

That does seem like an improvement.
 

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Didn't know I needed this, now I'm going to be bummed with every ide I use that doesn't have this
 
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More folks need to know about this. Please share with anyone you come across, either at work, at home, or your colleagues, when you can. It's just too useful to not share.
 
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Neat! I noticed the update notification so I should be good to turn this on tomorrow. First thing I will do before starting my day. Thanks OP!
 
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delete12345 said:
Does this work on tabs? And does it have performance issues like the Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 extension, unlike the native built-in solution that was in version 1.60 update?
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I've been using ident rainbow for about a year and haven't noticed performance issues, but I also make it a habit to stay away from files more than a few hundred lines long.
 

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I tried the Rainbow Bracket plugin for Android Studio and didn't really care for it. I find all the colors distracting.
 
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delete12345 said:
Does this work on tabs? And does it have performance issues like the Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 extension, unlike the native built-in solution that was in version 1.60 update?
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It's worked well for me, I haven't had any performance issues with it. But the files I'm working with are usually < 1000 lines long.
 
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Tater said:
It's worked well for me, I haven't had any performance issues with it. But the files I'm working with are usually < 1000 lines long.
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Red said:
I've been using ident rainbow for about a year and haven't noticed performance issues, but I also make it a habit to stay away from files more than a few hundred lines long.
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It's unfortunate then. I am currently working on a very large, monolithic source repository, where plenty of files are more than 1000 lines long. And we don't use Python (or any languages that uses indentations to denote the code scopes) at work for the most part.
 
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awesome! it's a feature I've always wanted but never bother to play around with all the plugins. Having it natively now is a godsend
 
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Excellent update. VS Code is so good (and getting better all the time), sometimes I wonder if it's really a Microsoft product.
 
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Been using the Bracket Pair Colorizer extension for years, didn't really notice any performance issues. Guess I my files are never long enough to get to that point.

Glad to have a 'native' option though.
 
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