Removes single-line and multi-line comments from your code — for basically any language — without touching strings, URLs, or actual code that happens to contain //, #, <!--, etc.

What it handles

Line comments: //, #, --, ;, ' (VB), depending on language
Block comments: /* ... */, , <# ... #>, =begin/=end, --[[ ]]
30+ languages out of the box: JS/TS/JSX/TSX, Python, Java, C/C++/C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, HTML/XML, CSS/SCSS/LESS, Markdown, YAML, Shell, PowerShell, SQL, Lua, Dockerfile, Makefile, Vue, and more.
Unrecognized file types fall back to // + /* */ (the most common style).

What it will NOT touch

Anything inside string literals ("...", '...', `...`), even if it contains //, #, or other comment-like text.
A leading shebang line (#!/usr/bin/env node) is always preserved.
Actual code — only the comment text and comment-only lines are removed.

Installation (no publishing required)

Unzip the extension folder somewhere permanent, e.g. ~/comment-sweep.
Open a terminal in that folder and run:
```
npm install -g @vscode/vsce
vsce package
```
This produces comment-sweep-1.0.0.vsix.
In VS Code: open the Extensions panel → click the ... menu (top right) → Install from VSIX... → select the .vsix file you just built.

(Alternatively, skip packaging entirely: copy the whole comment-sweep folder into your VS Code extensions directory — ~/.vscode/extensions/ on macOS/Linux, %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\ on Windows — then restart VS Code.)

Usage

Open any file in VS Code.
Run Comment Sweep: Remove Comments from File from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P), or right-click in the editor and pick it from the context menu.
To clean only part of a file: select the text first, then run Comment Sweep: Remove Comments from Selection the same way.

Undo (Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z) works as normal if you want the comments back.

Keyboard shortcuts

Command	Windows/Linux	macOS
Remove Comments from File	`Ctrl+Alt+C`	`Cmd+Alt+C`
Remove Comments from Selection	`Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C`	`Cmd+Alt+Shift+C`

To change these: Command Palette → Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts → search "Comment Sweep" → click the pencil icon next to a command.

Known limitations

Regex literals in JS/TS that contain // inside them (e.g. /a\/\/b/) aren't specially detected — this is a rare edge case; check code with inline regex after running.
JSON files are left untouched (standard JSON has no comment syntax); .jsonc files are supported.
Python/Ruby "block comments" via triple-quoted strings are treated as strings (correctly) — only #/=begin/=end style comments are removed.