We’re excited to announce the official release of the AMPL extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the Visual Studio Marketplace! 🎉
Whether you’re modeling energy systems, optimizing supply chains, or teaching mathematical programming, this extension brings AMPL right into your favorite Python development environment.
🛠️ What’s Inside: 8 Key Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
The extension provides contextual syntax highlighting for AMPL files in VS code, allowing seamless integration of AMPL in other programming languages, making code easier to read and debug.
2. Code Completion (IntelliSense)
Offers intelligent suggestions for keywords, variables, sets, and parameters as you type, reducing errors and speeding up development.
3. Error Detection and Diagnostics
Highlights syntax and semantic errors, helping you catch issues before running your models.
4. Seamless Model Execution
Run AMPL models directly from VS Code with integrated terminal support, eliminating the need to switch to a separate command-line environment.
5. Model Navigation
Supports go-to-definition, symbol search, and document outline features, making it easy to navigate large and complex models.
6. Cross-platform Support
Works consistently across Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it suitable for all development environments.
7. Contextual Hover Help
Hover over AMPL keywords or options to get instant explanations—no more flipping through documentation.
8. Active Development and Official Support
Maintained by the official AMPL team, ensuring up-to-date features, documentation, and support for new language enhancements and solvers.
This extension helps streamline the optimization modeling workflow and is especially useful in both academic and professional settings.
Early feedback has been overwhelmingly positive!
We encourage everyone in the AMPL community to try it out, provide feedback, and help shape its future development.
🔗 Install it now: AMPL Extension on Visual Studio Marketplace
Let’s building better models—together!
Technical Development Team
