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by userbinator 60 days ago
Would it actually improve readability though? Seems likely!

Highly unlikely.

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/

(Look at what else he's done, if you doubt the value of his opinion.)

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Well, he argued in this 19 years old essay that syntax highlighting for programming languages is bad. Which might have been somewhat defensible in 2007, but is obviously completely false in 2026 AD.
Care to give any other arguments besides "it's old and thus must be wrong"?