Better Byte highlights and color-codes your comments to make them instantly recognizable and actionable.

Categorize your comments with:

• Alerts (red) - Important warnings and critical information
• Queries (blue) - Questions and things to investigate
• TODOs (orange) - Tasks that need to be completed
• Highlights (green) - Important information and notes
• FIXME (yellow background) - Issues that need fixing
• HACK (orange background) - Temporary workarounds
• BUG (red background) - Known bugs and issues
• UNDO (blue background) - Things to be removed/reverted
• Commented-out code (gray strikethrough) - Code that you're scared to delete

Works with: OpenTofu, YAML, JSON, Python, Terraform, TypeScript, and 50+ other languages.

• 🎨 Highlight important comments with custom tags and colors
• 🌍 Supports dozens of languages (including HCL, Python, PowerShell, YAML, and more)
• 🚀 Works in Remote-WSL, Codespaces, and all VSCode environments
• ⚙️ Dynamic language registration:
  • By default, highlights comments in all installed languages
  • Or, specify exactly which languages to enable via settings
• 🎯 Customizable tags:
  • Change tag text, color, underline, bold, italic, and more
  • Case-insensitive matching: Tags like "TODO", "todo", "Todo" all work the same
• 📝 Multiline and single-line comment support
• 📄 Plaintext highlighting (optional)

You can configure Better Byte in User or Workspace settings.

"better-byte.multilineComments": true,
"better-byte.highlightPlainText": false,
"better-byte.languages": ["solidity", "javascript", "typescript"], // Optional: restrict to these languages
"better-byte.tags": [
  {
    "tag": "!",
    "color": "#FF2D00",
    "strikethrough": false,
    "underline": false,
    "backgroundColor": "transparent",
    "bold": false,
    "italic": false
  },
  {
    "tag": "?",
    "color": "#3498DB"
  },
  {
    "tag": "//",
    "color": "#474747",
    "strikethrough": true
  },
  {
    "tag": "TODO",
    "color": "#FF8C00"
  },
  {
    "tag": "*",
    "color": "#28FF00"
  },
  {
    "tag": "FIXME",
    "color": "#000000",
    "backgroundColor": "#FFCC00"
  },
  {
    "tag": "HACK",
    "color": "#000000",
    "backgroundColor": "#FF8C00"
  },
  {
    "tag": "BUG",
    "color": "#000000",
    "backgroundColor": "#FF2D00"
  },
  {
                "tag": "UNDO",
    "color": "#000000",
    "backgroundColor": "#3498DB"
  }
]

• better-byte.multilineComments
  Enable/disable styling for multiline comments.

• better-byte.highlightPlainText
  Enable/disable highlighting in plaintext files.

• better-byte.languages
  Array of language IDs to enable highlighting for.
  Leave empty to use all installed languages.

• better-byte.tags
  List of tag objects to customize how comments are highlighted.

Better Byte supports all languages with a registered comment configuration in VSCode, including but not limited to:

• Ada, AL, Apex, AsciiDoc, BrightScript, C, C#, C++, ColdFusion, Clojure, COBOL, CoffeeScript, CSS, Dart, Dockerfile, Elixir, Elm, Erlang, F#, Fortran, gdscript, GenStat, Go, GraphQL, Groovy, Haskell, Haxe, HCL, OpenTofu, HiveQL, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JavaScript React, JSON with comments, Julia, Kotlin, LaTeX, Less, Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Markdown, Nim, MATLAB, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Pascal, Perl, Perl 6, PHP, Pig, PlantUML, PL/SQL, PowerShell, Puppet, Python, R, Racket, Ruby, Rust, SAS, Sass, Scala, SCSS, ShaderLab, ShellScript, SQL, STATA, Stylus, Svelte, Swift, Tcl, Terraform, Twig, TypeScript, TypeScript React, Verilog, Visual Basic, Vue.js, XML, YAML, and more!

Better Byte scans your code for comments matching your configured tags and applies your chosen styles.
It works with both single-line and block comments, and can be extended to new languages automatically.

Pull requests and feature suggestions are welcome!
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

See LICENSE.md.

Originally inspired by Better Comments by aaron-bond.
Better Byte is a modern, actively maintained fork with new features and broader language support.

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.