A thing that has always frustrated me about github/bitbucket, as a language designer, is that you can't teach the forge to syntax highlight files in your own custom formats.
Now the existence of Codeberg/git.gay means potentially I could create a PR to forgejo to add this feature and it would get added to the forges I actually use. Perhaps at some point I will do this.
Oh. it's… oh.
It's… custom Go code… on a per-language basis. they use something called Chroma and the way Chroma works is it wrote custom lexers in Go for each language they want to support. Um. Hm.
This is actually the one single approach they could have attempted which prevents custom pluggable highlighters on a per-repo basis.
https://hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/statuses/01KNQJ9H3R64BEHE1QWNBXZKVW
@mcc last I checked it was https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma ; I remember sending a patch to support Fennel and it was handled pretty promptly
@mcc the flip side of this is projects which do allow third-party syntax highlighters, but only in the form of general purpose javascript-based plugins that run with max permissions, because everything must be turing-complete and sandboxes don’t exist.
This feels like a problem that should have been solved 20+ years ago 😕
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