Support ES6 Modules

[JustinGrote]

Now that VSCode is on Electron 28 which has ESM support, the loaders need to be updated similarly to allow for extensions to be written in ESM
microsoft/vscode#130367 (comment)

[Mr-Duda]

This would be very helpful since microsoft/vscode#210466 is now live.

[v4lentin1879]

any updates on this one?

[Mr-Duda]

I think this is also related: microsoft/vscode#212727

[v4lentin1879]

any idea when this is gonna be implemented? It seems like there is no possibility of importing esm modules in commonjs without using a dynamic import.. which again is not supported by vscode

[alexander-heimbuch]

Valentin (@v4lentin1879) the PR @wataBottl referenced looks interesting. I don't think it will get merged but it seems to be possible.

[v4lentin1879]

Alexander Heimbuch (@alexander-heimbuch) okay at least something :D Do you have any idea how to do this? Using dynamic imports only works in debug mode.

[alexander-heimbuch]

Valentin (@v4lentin1879) it looks like it does require a change in the extension loader in core, without it I don't think it possible (or I couldn't manage to get it working).

[JustinGrote]

Alexandru Dima (@alexdima) are you tracking any work on this?

[tats-u]

Is the blocker the lack of stability of require(esm) or vm.Modules?