I recently started a trial of Windsurf, which is a fork of VSCode that provides an integrated AI coding environment. It is compatible with most of the VSCode extensions I normally use. But Microsoft blocks their C/C++ extension, which is a dependency of the Modern Fortran extension, so Modern Fortran is unusable with Windsurf. This is a bummer because I would really love to try using the AI tools to improve some legacy Fortran codebases. The AI plugins still work on the Fortran code, but I don’t have all the nice features of Modern Fortran, including syntax highlighting, intellisense, and debugging support.
Windsurf publishes their own C/C++ extension, but it doesn’t help with Modern Fortran.
Anybody know a solution? AI suggested manually editing the Modern Fortran .visx file to remove the dependency, but that seems like it would break things.