From d5906e552c3aef329a070015ed8a5da3a12f31db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Nolan <tesses@tesses.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:27:36 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add better crosslang

---
 vscode-extension/package.json                 |  13 +-
 .../syntaxes/bcrosslang.tmLanguage.json       | 137 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../syntaxes/crosslang.tmLanguage.json        |   2 +-
 3 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 vscode-extension/syntaxes/bcrosslang.tmLanguage.json

diff --git a/vscode-extension/package.json b/vscode-extension/package.json
index 6f2fcb4..92a6afe 100644
--- a/vscode-extension/package.json
+++ b/vscode-extension/package.json
@@ -17,7 +17,14 @@
       "aliases": ["CrossLang", "crosslang"],
       "extensions": [".tcross"],
       "configuration": "./language-configuration.json"
-    },{
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "bcrosslang",
+      "aliases": ["CrossLang", "better-crosslang"],
+      "extensions": [".btcross"],
+      "configuration": "./language-configuration.json"
+    }
+    ,{
       "id": "crossasm",
       "aliases": ["CrossAsm", "crossasm"],
       "extensions": [".tcasm"],
@@ -27,6 +34,10 @@
       "language": "crosslang",
       "scopeName": "source.crosslang",
       "path": "./syntaxes/crosslang.tmLanguage.json"
+    },{
+      "language": "bcrosslang",
+      "scopeName": "source.bcrosslang",
+      "path": "./syntaxes/bcrosslang.tmLanguage.json"
     },{
       "language": "crossasm",
       "scopeName": "source.crossasm",
diff --git a/vscode-extension/syntaxes/bcrosslang.tmLanguage.json b/vscode-extension/syntaxes/bcrosslang.tmLanguage.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a946907
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vscode-extension/syntaxes/bcrosslang.tmLanguage.json
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+{
+	"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martinring/tmlanguage/master/tmlanguage.json",
+	"name": "Better CrossLang",
+	"patterns": [
+		{
+			"include": "#comment" 
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#keywords"
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#chars"
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#operators"
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#function"
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#identifier"
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#consts"
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#double"
+		},
+		{
+			"include": "#long"
+		},
+        {
+			"include": "#strings"
+		}
+	],
+	"repository": {
+		"comment": {
+			"patterns": [{
+				"name": "comment.line.double-slash.bcrosslang",
+				"begin": "//",
+				"end": "\\n"
+			},
+			{
+				"name": "comment.block.bcrosslang",
+				"begin": "\\/\\*",
+				"end": "\\*\\/"
+			},
+			{
+				"name": "comment.line.bcrosslang",
+				"begin": "#",
+				"end": "\\n"
+			},
+			{
+				"name":"comment.block.documentation.bcrosslang",
+				"begin": "\\/\\^",
+				"end": "\\^\\/"
+			}
+			]
+		},
+		"strings": {
+			"name": "string.quoted.double.bcrosslang",
+			"begin": "\\\"",
+			"end": "\\\"",
+			"patterns": [
+				{
+					"name": "constant.character.escape.bcrosslang",
+					"match": "\\\\."
+				}
+			]
+		},
+		"operators": {
+			"patterns": [{
+				"name": "keyword.operator",
+				"match": "(\\+|\\-|\\*|\\\/|\\%|\\!|\\||\\&|\\^|\\<\\<|\\>\\>|\\<|\\>|\\=)"
+			}]
+		},
+		"function": {
+			"patterns": [{
+				"name": "entity.name.function.bcrosslang",
+				"match": "\\b[_a-zA-Z\\x80-\\xFF\\$][_a-zA-Z0-9\\x80-\\xFF\\$]*\\("
+			}]
+		},
+		"identifier": {
+			"patterns": [{
+				"name": "entity.name.bcrosslang",
+				"match": "\\b[_a-zA-Z\\x80-\\xFF\\$][_a-zA-Z0-9\\x80-\\xFF\\$]*"
+			}]
+		},
+		"double": {
+			"name": "constant.numeric.bcrosslang",
+			"match": "\\b[0-9][0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\b"
+		},
+		
+		"long": {
+			"patterns": [
+				{
+					"name": "constant.numeric.bcrosslang",
+					"match": "\\b[0-9][0-9]*\\b"
+				}
+			]
+		},
+		"keywords": {
+			"patterns": [
+				{
+					
+					"name": "constant.language.bcrosslang",
+					"match": "\\b(true|false|null|undefined|this)\\b"
+				},
+				{
+					"name": "keyword.operator.new.bcrosslang",
+					"match": "\\bnew\\b"
+				},
+				{
+					"name": "keyword.control.bcrosslang",
+					"match": "\\b(if|else|while|for|do|return|each|break|try|catch|finally|defer|enumerable|yield|switch|case|default|await|breakpoint|throw)\\b"
+				},
+				{
+					"name": "keyword.bcrosslang",
+					"match": "\\b(Double|Long|ByteArray|List|Dictionary|Object|String|Char|Callable|Path|Filesystem|Regex|Variant|Boolean|as|var|of|in|interface|delegate|extern|namespace|use|const|func|class|public|private|protected|static|operator|embed|embeddir|embedstrm|comptime|async)\\b"
+				}
+			]
+		},
+		"chars": {
+			"name": "constant.character.bcrosslang",
+			"begin": "'",
+			"end": "'",
+			"patterns": [
+				{
+					"name": "constant.character.escape.bcrosslang",
+					"match": "\\\\."
+				}
+			]
+		}
+	},
+	"scopeName": "source.bcrosslang"
+}
+
diff --git a/vscode-extension/syntaxes/crosslang.tmLanguage.json b/vscode-extension/syntaxes/crosslang.tmLanguage.json
index 837c6a0..fbacc84 100644
--- a/vscode-extension/syntaxes/crosslang.tmLanguage.json
+++ b/vscode-extension/syntaxes/crosslang.tmLanguage.json
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 				},
 				{
 					"name": "keyword.control.crosslang",
-					"match": "\\b(if|else|while|for|do|return|each|break|try|catch|finally|defer|enumerable|yield|switch|case|default|await|breakpoint|throw)\\b"
+					"match": "\\b(if|else|while|for|do|return|each|in|break|try|catch|finally|defer|enumerable|yield|switch|case|default|await|breakpoint|throw)\\b"
 				},
 				{
 					"name": "keyword.crosslang",