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by mariusor 895 days ago
Sean is part of the old guard of developers which (similar to Rob Pike) eschews modern conveniences like syntax highlighting because they find it distracting (I'm paraphrasing here). And I think it's a bit obnoxious to amuse yourself at the expense of the grandfathers of computing just because they enjoy doing things in a slightly archaic way.