iRule Developer Tools

Hi All,

I've made a set of developer tools for Tcl including iRules,

https://github.com/bitwisecook/tcl-lsp

This includes

• LSP server
• Editor integrations for VSCode, Sublime Text, Zed, Jetbrains, Helix, neovim, emacs and more (though I've only really hammered on vscode there)
• MCP server
• Claude skills
• cli tool
• Semantic token highlighting
• Hover docs
• Format string interpreters
• AI tools for creating, explaing, validating, documenting, diagramming iRules and Tcl
• full optimising compiler chain with 26 optimiser passes
• 27 iRule specific diagnostics and optimisations
• Security warnings through taint tracking (use of user input tracked through the code)
• Shimmer detection with inline type hints (know when a variable type is being reinterpreted)
• Code formatting
• Code minification
• Compiler explorer to look at how your code is interpreted
• A full iRule testing framework

and more.

This is only based on publicly available information and my memory, though I have deployed enough iRules. This is the tool I always wanted.

I could do with help expanding and improving the profile -> event / command maps, and the iRule event graph, and with generally finding bugs, so please, open issues.

I will be away on holiday for a couple of weeks so please bear in mind I may take a little time to get back to you.

cheers,

Jim 🇬🇧🇦🇺