@justine

Rob Pike famously wrote: "Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods). I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals."

When people kept arguing for syntax highlightning on the Go Playground, he followed up with: "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things."

For most it's a matter of personal preference. For me... I don't really notice it either way. On my personal devices I have things setup with gruvbox theme, but I don't /need/ syntax highlighting to edit stuff when logging on to somebody elses servers.