Solidity + HardHat extension possible issue

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Hi! I hope I will help somebody with this discussion.

If you have this kind of error in your vscode and your contracts do not get formatted and linting is not working here's a gist, try running hh compile and see if anything crashes. Hardhat plugin executes your hardhat.config.ts in order to work, so if it's not executed properly, your plugin won't work correctly. In my case I didn't use dotenv and ran . ./.env every time I executed a project, however plugin doesn't have any access to .env hence it didn't work appropriately.