nixCraft 🐧Apr 30, 2024
Developers who don't use syntax highlighting in their code editors are clearly psychopaths. I mean, who willingly chooses chaos?
Show threadvifonApr 30, 2024
@nixCraft I know one such dev fairly well. It made me realize how arbitrary the common syntax highlighting systems are. It's just a rainbow-colored soup that has little logic to it, apart from coloring comments and strings, and maybe keywords. Everything else is very arbitrary at its best and very inconsistent at its worst. Especially before the advent of LSP and tree-sitter.
Show threadtadzik
@vifon @nixCraft That's me! Full story here: https://social.tadzik.net/notice/AhPRlfAiH8a1AVJivg
tadzik (@[email protected])

@nixCraft Many years ago (12, apparently), I met a guy who did just that. His argument was “I already know which syntax element is which, I don’t need no training wheels for that”.“How dumb!” I tho...

Apr 30, 2024 at 9:23amWeb
Show threadbazkie don't live here no moreApr 30, 2024
@tadzik @nixCraft @vifon thanks for offering an opposite view 😄 that's brave! I'll still stick with my colors tho - not even because it's useful, but because I like colors and it makes me happy!