I've used Obsidian and Tangent. For whatever reason, I've found Tangent's code highlighting brighter, more colorful, and (maybe hence?) more easily readable. Obsidian is more muted. Steve Jobs would have preferred Obsidian.
I've seen this feature off and on in some online code editors. I didn't know this was a (universal?) Markdown feature. Is it supposed to work universally in all Markdown editors (e.g. VSCode's Markdown view)?
Based on the documentation and the screenshot next to it, I don't see how it differs from Obsidian on this point.
A Markdown code block in Obsidian is going to be highlighted as expected.
Actually it appears that they both relies on Prism to achieve this :
- https://help.obsidian.md/syntax#Code+blocks
- https://github.com/suchnsuch/Tangent/blob/main/apps/tangent-...