Initializing JS/TS language features spinning constantly #103740 still happening

[David263]

• VSCode Version:1.50.0
• OS Version:Windows 10 Home

Steps to Reproduce:

1.Install VSC or update to version 1.50.0
2.Open some Help pages.
3.Click on the tab for an existing file ("Interactive Playground").
Observe that the purple status bar has a spinner "Initializing JS/TS..." at the left. It never stops spinning.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes!
See #103740.

[ell1e]

I recently saw this too, and only got it to stop by disabling TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features (the "rich" plugin) entirely. Not that I care, since I don't use TS/JS much anyway. But obviously, that shouldn't be required to not make it do that. This was on a fresh install of VS Codium 1.50.0 where I only added the clangd LSP plugin and some themes.

[David263]

I don't have such a Typescript plugin. My VSC contains Insert Unicode, PHP interphense, Restore Editors, and Save All only.

[ell1e]

Click "Extensions" (the button on the left sidebar) > "Filter Extensions..." (the left-most icon in the top bar of the extensions search window) > "Built-in" to see it, it doesn't normally show in the regular list. In the listed categories you should then see, look for it in the "Features" list, not the "Programming Languages" list

[David263]

There are a lot of these. What is the exact name, please?

[ell1e]

As I already wrote above it is named: TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features

The list is alphabetical, so with a bit of scrolling you should hopefully find it

Edit: here is a screenshot:

[David263]

Oh, I disabled "TypeScript Language Basics" before I saw the screenshot. My bad. I've corrected it. For future reference, it is in the Extensions > Features section, as shown clearly in the screenshot. Thanks.

[mjbvz]

Closing this as:

• It only effects the interactive playground
• The interactive playground is not much used

[ell1e]

@mjbvz is the playground to be removed then? Otherwise this decision would seem pretty inconsistent

[mjbvz]

Actually this effects other in-memory resources too so reopening. To verify:

• Use the Fs provider extension sample
• Open a js or TS file from the memFS provider

Make sure that hover does not show (loading...) and that the loading indicator is not shown in the status bar

[David263]

This strange bug thread is one reason I've decided not to use VSC as my code editor. I don't want to use an editor, no matter how otherwise functional, that can't fix its own bugs in an intelligent and timely way.

[mjbvz]

Somedays you just can't win at open source :)

[David263]

mjbvz,. I think that is true. Only when there are good bug fixers and good documentation writers and good designers and good coders in the active community does Open Source really shine. Otherwise, I've evaluated 14 code editors and discovered that those that are sold by a single developer for money are freest of bugs and the best documented. In may cases, they are also the most functional products.

[David263]

It may be of interest to those who have been following my search for a code editor to know that I've given up my search as fruitless and plan to write my own. It will be lightweight, easily extendible, and work with all OSs because it will be an Ajax/JavaScript/PHP/Bootstrap self-hosted website. It will welcome an Open Source community for extensions and suggestions only, and I will fix any bugs and document it myself.