[untog]

I don't think programmers (writing about code) are Medium's main target market.

[misiti3780]

i understand that, but ostracizing a group of people that are probably some of their core users right now (tech community) seems stupid - adding the feature would be very easy

[droob]

You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."

[eropple]

Maybe it's "should be easy" rather than "would be easy", but there's probably something wrong if it's not, yeah? Pretty much every other blogging engine does this and without a ton of effort. Code highlighting libraries exist in pretty much every web language (is there a serious one that doesn't have a Pygments equivalent?). It's just markup.

[kevando]

Jokes for the 1%

[pseut]

"ostracizing" is a pretty extreme way of putting it.

[dopamean]

"Ostracizing" is a pretty strong word here.

[yen223]

"It's like apartheid, but with programmers."