The extension provides PowerShell language services via the PowerShell language server, PowerShell Editor Services, which itself leverages the Language Server Protocol that helps VS Code and other editors smoothly support coding in a variety of programming languages, from Python to Java, by providing the language-specific "smarts" for auto complete, go to definition, find all references and other functionality.
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The re-architected update to the PowerShell Language Support for Visual Studio Code extension comes on the heels of Microsoft shipping the latest edition of its task-based command-line shell and scripting language, PowerShell 7. That effort may serve to reduce the number of complaints lodged about the tool on its marketplace listing, where a number of developers noted problems with comments such as "The powershell extension process is crashing all the time (almost every 5-10 minutes)" and "Code quality seems pretty poor and I'm constantly having problems or having the integrated terminal crashing."
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"Instead, over a period of six months we prioritized work to re-architect the extension with an emphasis on stability." "Long-standing constraints in the original design of the PowerShell extension made it difficult to improve its robustness through incremental changes," said Sydney Smith of the PowerShell team in a blog post today (March 5). Microsoft updated its PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code, continuing a months-long re-architecture to improve the stability of its editor and debugger, which was identified as the No.