Support ES6 Modules

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the loader implementation and read the linked VSCode discussion for the intended ESM behavior. Trace how extensions are currently loaded, then verify that ESM extensions load correctly without regressing existing module support.

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Description

feature-request

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
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/130367#issuecomment-1970816333

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