# Introducing Swift for Visual Studio Code

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 24, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swift-for-visual-studio-code/54246 "2021-12-24T01:44:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swift-for-visual-studio-code/54246/81 "2022-07-18T02:34:28Z")

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the `async` and `await` contextual keywords don’t receive syntax highlighting, apparently because the semantic highlighter classifies them as `identifier`s, and as far as i can tell, it is not possible to override a semantic highlight with a textmate highlight (which correctly detects it as a keyword.)

is there a fix?

 ![Screenshot from 2022-07-17 21-30-55](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/swift/original/3X/a/c/ac6c67da36fe1bdf45128bb1504959029940a240.png)

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