New VS Code Extension Replaces Booleans with Toggles

I, uh, actually kind of like the idea. If you just visually converted primitives to a toggle after you type true/false, and let you delete it like any other text, it could be a small convenience on any flags you might change during the development process.

As long as it's not literally a toggle that you can interact with.

I can only imagine the horrors of accidentally clicking in the editor while selecting some text and quietly changing certificateIsValid = false; to true or something like that.
- Nah, make it a keybind like alt-shift-click and give it a deafening sound like throwing an industrial breaker.
- I guess it would show up in git. But yea this sounds like the new "typing my password in the tema chat".
As a visual indicator, sure.
- Oh, I could easily see a trainwreck of an implementation. But if this was just a display option like color coding keywords and variables, but you could click to change the underlying true/false? I might add it.
I mean this as a joke but you might be right. A quick search suggests that no one implemented something like this yet.

I can't tell if it's a parody or an actual genius idea.

I would like to see the debugger give a list of all these boolean values and watch them toggle in real time. That would be far more useful.
- fwiw I opened an issue on the vs code repo. It already got a downvote and the issue was reassigned from one maintainer to another. Popcorn is tightly secured.

Previously I was able to search for “true” and “false” in my codebase. How do I do that now? VS Code has a new search interface specifically for toggles. It’s closed by default, but you can open it by clicking the “Toggle Search Toggle” toggle.

Yo dawg, I heard you liked toggles so we gave you a toggle to search for toggles in your toggle

Also, the section defining behaviour for null and undefined values are kind of bonkers.

Buuut, a nice visual nonetheless. I don't see myself using it though.

You know, I could find a few cases where this could have helped me troubleshoot stuff on the code.

Ngl I dont hate it.

It looks neat, but I think I'll keep my true and false. I don't like chhannngggeeee!

Grep -Irn "green toggle thingy" ./*

Sounds like some condiment for the spaghetti.

I used an extension a while ago that changed CSS colour values (#ababab) into little coloured dots, that became a colour picker when clicking on them (while still letting you input RGB or Hex, ofc), and it was pretty awesome!

So, I could unironically see this being really nice. Although... I think this would need a pretty narrow context, something like if x == true would look pretty confusing as a toggle, I imagine. But assigning x = true? Bring it on.

Good point. I actually thing that having if x == true is bad practice anyway because it's redundant, so showing a toggle in that context would have the benefit of highlighting that something's wrong.

MATLAB does this...