Parsing support in vscode namespace

Question

VS Code has basic parsing support out of the box (e.g. highlighting matching brackets, line comments and block comments). Is it possible to use this parser in an extension or do you know of a good parser that is accessible from TypeScript?

Answer 1

Sam Harwell is working on a TS runtime for the ANTLR tool, which I started using in an vscode extension to parse text. Still in early alpha state but already usable.