Hi @stefan-prokop-cz! Thanks for your interest in CodeQL! At the moment, we're 100% focussed on making CodeQL development as awesome as possible within Visual Studio Code. This goes beyond having a good editing experience (syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and so on — the usual): it also includes running CodeQL queries on source code databases, browsing query results, and other nifty CodeQL functionality.

However, I am aware of some people in the CodeQL community who have made things easier for users who prefer other IDEs. For example, here's a blog post about setting up in emacs. And here's a repo (by one of my colleagues) that has a lot of detail on a community-provided Vim plugin: https://github.com/pwntester/codeql.nvim

If you'd like to take it further on PHPStorm/WebStorm/JetBrains, then it might be helpful to know that VSCode and CodeQL communicate through the standard Language Server Protocol. While this functionality is mostly used internally, you can find some documentation on it here. Incidentally, I've just opened a PR to have CodeQL included on the list of languages that come with a language server.

I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you have any more questions!

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