PluginStatsYash installs statistics
By daohong emilio · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
Yet another syntax highlighter for lex/yacc & flex/bison.
Yash has 133,091 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #2003 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 21 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 4.76 / 5 from 21 ratings
About Yash
Yet Another Syntax Highlighter
This is yet another syntax highlighter for lex/yacc and flex/bison.
Features
This extension provides full syntax highlight for these languages and also for the embedded language C/C++.
This extension also supports some basic language features such as: • Code diagnostic • Auto-completion • Go to Definition • Go to Type Definition • Find references • Rename Symbol • Hover
Preview
Completion for lex
Completion for yacc
Diagnostic
More examples
You can find more previews here previews.
Notice
Since 1.43.0 VSCode enabled a new feature called Semantic Highlighting, this extension supports it.
By default, only the built-in themes has semantic highlighting enabled, so if you are using a 3rd party theme that doesn't support the semantic coloring yet, you have to add these lines to your settings.json file to have the feature enabled.
For extra information see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Semantic-Highlighting-Overview.
Here is the comparison with and without semantic highlighting.
On left enabled, on right disabled
Requirements
VSCode ^1.44
Contributors
• @babyraging - creator • @sceriffo - creator
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- Bison
- Flex
- lex
- yacc
Where Yash sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
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Recent observations
Full history (3)Similar VS Code Marketplace Programming Languages plugins
Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=daohong-emilio.yash. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.