Syntax Highlighting and .jp files

[Minitour]

Assuming I have many transformations used in my app based on jmespath it would be a great idea to have them stored in a .jp file as well as support syntax highlighting for the language. After all it is well defined via the spec, so I see no issue having a syntax highlight support based on tokens.

We can then have plugins developed for IDEs (IntelliJ / VSCode).

Thoughts on that?

[springcomp]

This is great idea thanks for the feedback.

There are tons of implementations, so hopefully one exists that exposes the AST in a language used to build extensions for popular editors.

[Minitour]

So it seems that in the last few days some work has been done to move this forward.

A recent PR to pygments added the support for JMESPath highlighting.

A functional demo is found here:
https://pygments.org/demo/

[innovate-invent]

Thanks for finding that. My initial test shows that it still needs work though. It fails to handle some syntax.
See my comment in the PR.