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by daxterspeed 2524 days ago
The only study I could find on the topic seems to support that syntax highlighting makes it easier to read and understand code regardless of programming experience. Calling it "training wheels" seems to be a completely useless brag, or perhaps the author has synesthesia - effectively performing the syntax highlighting in their head?

[0] http://www.ppig.org/library/paper/impact-syntax-colouring-pr...