[azhenley]

From what I have tried, VS Code doesn't allow access to the DOM or give much of an API to modify the visual layer. This makes it very difficult to draw visualizations on top of the editor. It also does not allow plugins to go beyond the standard tab-document metaphor.

For example, students of mine tried to re-implement Patchworks [1] as a VS Code plugin. Didn't seem feasible. They have been very successful in building it in Atom though. As another example, I tried to make a tool that displays a call graph visualization on top of the editor [2]. But again, this was easy in Atom but I couldn't figure it out in VS Code.

Please point me to any documentation or examples of how to implement features like those.

[1] https://youtu.be/GwcxDZT3pXE

[2] http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2018bDissertation.pd... Figure 36