At the risk of victim shaming someone who develops in asm: Are you sure VS Code is the best tool for the job as opposed to the back of a fag packet or vi with the safety catches switched off?
konsole does a similar thing too and it is generally useful there. Its one of those skills that you never needed but looks cool until it starts colouring in asm and then you realise:
Fuck me. The AI SkyNet agents of doom really will trip on the stairs and probably even hallucinate stairs in the first place.
...you...you almost could. If it were RGBA and you stuck to arm32...
"Yes my program is mostly green but occasionally a deep purple. This program, like all my code, is highly transparent."
@[email protected] programmers at bell labs called it an "address spectrum"