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by ANTSANTS 4407 days ago
You can syntax highlight assembly, it's just not terribly useful since the structure is so consistent and simple to begin with.

Syntax highlighting in general is kinda silly. I'm sad that people turn their noses up at code that isn't drenched in unicorn vomit.
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grannyg00se 4407 days ago
Haha. Definitely can relate to some screenshots looking a little too LSD inspired, but I must say I appreciate having strings stand out separately. For one, I know right away if I have too many hardcoded strings dispersed throughout the code. And it also helps to catch quote closing, although basic syntax checker would also do that.
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ANTSANTS 4407 days ago
Yeah, I agree with all of that. Dim comments, tint strings and preprocessor/template/macro stuff, and we're good. Everything else is pointless at best and annoying when it inevitably screws up (color standard library functions differently? oh look, you missed one, and now it's going to bother me every time I use it. color built-in types differently? argh, now I'm going to want to use uint8_t instead of uint8 or U8...)
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