#syntaxhighlighting — Public Fediverse posts

Oh, look 🎉, it's Notepad++ pretending to fit in at the Mac party 🎩. Finally, a "native" app for the Apple crowd, because nothing says "innovation" like releasing Notepad++ three years late ⏳. Now, Mac users can experience the joy of syntax highlighting, which we've totally never seen before 🙄.
https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/ #NotepadPlusPlus #MacApp #Innovation #LateRelease #SyntaxHighlighting #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look 🎉, it's Notepad++ pretending to fit in at the Mac party 🎩. Finally, a "native" app for the Apple crowd, because nothing says "innovation" like releasing Notepad++ three years late ⏳. Now, Mac users can experience the joy of syntax highlighting, which we've totally never seen before 🙄.
https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/ #NotepadPlusPlus #MacApp #Innovation #LateRelease #SyntaxHighlighting #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look 🎉, it's Notepad++ pretending to fit in at the Mac party 🎩. Finally, a "native" app for the Apple crowd, because nothing says "innovation" like releasing Notepad++ three years late ⏳. Now, Mac users can experience the joy of syntax highlighting, which we've totally never seen before 🙄.
https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/ #NotepadPlusPlus #MacApp #Innovation #LateRelease #SyntaxHighlighting #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look 🎉, it's Notepad++ pretending to fit in at the Mac party 🎩. Finally, a "native" app for the Apple crowd, because nothing says "innovation" like releasing Notepad++ three years late ⏳. Now, Mac users can experience the joy of syntax highlighting, which we've totally never seen before 🙄.
https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/ #NotepadPlusPlus #MacApp #Innovation #LateRelease #SyntaxHighlighting #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look 🎉, it's Notepad++ pretending to fit in at the Mac party 🎩. Finally, a "native" app for the Apple crowd, because nothing says "innovation" like releasing Notepad++ three years late ⏳. Now, Mac users can experience the joy of syntax highlighting, which we've totally never seen before 🙄.
https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/ #NotepadPlusPlus #MacApp #Innovation #LateRelease #SyntaxHighlighting #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, finally! A text editor for emo developers who need GPU acceleration to feel validated 😒. Because everyone knows syntax highlighting is so last millennium without WASM plugins 🚀. Meanwhile, actual coding productivity is left wandering in the wilderness. 🙄
https://github.com/Yus314/kasane #emoDevelopers #GPUAcceleration #WASMPlugins #SyntaxHighlighting #CodingProductivity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, finally! A text editor for emo developers who need GPU acceleration to feel validated 😒. Because everyone knows syntax highlighting is so last millennium without WASM plugins 🚀. Meanwhile, actual coding productivity is left wandering in the wilderness. 🙄
https://github.com/Yus314/kasane #emoDevelopers #GPUAcceleration #WASMPlugins #SyntaxHighlighting #CodingProductivity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, finally! A text editor for emo developers who need GPU acceleration to feel validated 😒. Because everyone knows syntax highlighting is so last millennium without WASM plugins 🚀. Meanwhile, actual coding productivity is left wandering in the wilderness. 🙄
https://github.com/Yus314/kasane #emoDevelopers #GPUAcceleration #WASMPlugins #SyntaxHighlighting #CodingProductivity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, finally! A text editor for emo developers who need GPU acceleration to feel validated 😒. Because everyone knows syntax highlighting is so last millennium without WASM plugins 🚀. Meanwhile, actual coding productivity is left wandering in the wilderness. 🙄
https://github.com/Yus314/kasane #emoDevelopers #GPUAcceleration #WASMPlugins #SyntaxHighlighting #CodingProductivity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, finally! A text editor for emo developers who need GPU acceleration to feel validated 😒. Because everyone knows syntax highlighting is so last millennium without WASM plugins 🚀. Meanwhile, actual coding productivity is left wandering in the wilderness. 🙄
https://github.com/Yus314/kasane #emoDevelopers #GPUAcceleration #WASMPlugins #SyntaxHighlighting #CodingProductivity #HackerNews #ngated

Wondering about #SyntaxHighlighting in #VScodium:

Is #Perl’s #TemplateToolkit actually TT in HTML or HTML in TT? 🤔

See comment for example.

One Open-source Project Daily

Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

#1ospd #opensource #screenshot #shell #syntaxhighlighting #zsh #zshsyntaxhighlighting

🖥️ Oh, wow! Someone actually took the time to port #Coreboot to a #ThinkPad #X270, proving that you too can waste hours of your life for an unnoticeable boot time #improvement. 🕒🔍 Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to choose between 50 shades of syntax highlighting themes, because that's what really matters, right? 🎨👨‍💻
https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/ #BootTime #SyntaxHighlighting #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Last year, WordPress.com introduced new code editors for the block editor and the Additional CSS input box in the WordPress admin. This was the first stage of a larger effort[…]
 
#WordPress #WordPresscom #codeblock #codeeditor #syntaxhighlighting
https://ift.tt/f3giDO6

New post: Using Tree-sitter to highlight code on the web

https://gsr.dev/blog/tree-sitter-on-the-web/

#blog #programming #golang #treeSitter #syntaxHighlighting

Arborium is AI slopware and should not be trusted: A blog post about my recent experiences trying to make a syntax highlighter work and instead running face first into the horrors

https://ewie.online/posts/20260214-arborium-is-ai-slopw/

“Explainer: Tree-sitter Vs. LSP”, Ashton Wiersdorf (https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719899

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/qhickw/explainer_tree_sitter_vs_lsp

#LSP #TreeSitter #LanguageServerProtocol #Editors #SyntaxHighlighting #Parsers #Parsing

“Explainer: Tree-sitter Vs. LSP”, Ashton Wiersdorf (https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719899

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/qhickw/explainer_tree_sitter_vs_lsp

#LSP #TreeSitter #LanguageServerProtocol #Editors #SyntaxHighlighting #Parsers #Parsing

“Explainer: Tree-sitter Vs. LSP”, Ashton Wiersdorf (https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719899

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/qhickw/explainer_tree_sitter_vs_lsp

#LSP #TreeSitter #LanguageServerProtocol #Editors #SyntaxHighlighting #Parsers #Parsing

“Explainer: Tree-sitter Vs. LSP”, Ashton Wiersdorf (https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719899

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/qhickw/explainer_tree_sitter_vs_lsp

#LSP #TreeSitter #LanguageServerProtocol #Editors #SyntaxHighlighting #Parsers #Parsing

Published my port of the Alabaster theme family for Helix.

Alabaster is a minimal syntax highlighting approach by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) - only 4 semantic colors: strings, constants, comments, and definitions. Everything else stays plain text because code structure is already clear from formatting.

I've ported all 6 variants (light/dark × standard/BG/mono) from the original Sublime theme (staying as close as possible to the original). Also submitted a PR to ship these with Helix upstream!

Original theme: https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster
Read tonsky's essay: https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/
My port: https://github.com/wolf/alabaster-for-helix

I tried to duplicate the original exactly, however Helix has multiple selections so I made the colors distinct between "selection" and "primary-selection".

#HelixEditor #Helix #Alabaster #MinimalDesign #SyntaxHighlighting #TextEditor #Rust

I program without syntax highlighting

https://hakon.gylterud.net/opinion/syntax-highlighting.html

#HackerNews #I #program #without #syntax #highlighting #programming #syntaxhighlighting #coding #opinion #developer

A font that highlights TeX syntax? Groundbreaking! 🤯 Forget years of innovation in editors and typesetting systems - just slap a color palette on your font and call it a day! 🎨 Who needs #usability when you have... colors? 🤦‍♂️
https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a-font-with-built-in-tex-syntax-highlighting/ #fontdesign #syntaxhighlighting #TeXinnovation #colors #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Breaking news! 🎉 Web developers are now expected to install a font to solve all their coding woes. Because clearly, the problem with hand-coding websites wasn't the lack of caffeine or sanity, but the absence of syntax-highlighted fonts. 😂
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/ #WebDevelopment #FontInstall #CodingHumor #SyntaxHighlighting #DeveloperLife #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Behold! A dazzling spectacle of syntax highlighting that only a true tree-sitter enthusiast could love. 🤓 Dive into the riveting world of "Arborium," where #WASM and #cargo join forces to deliver the most thrilling experience since watching paint dry. 🌳✨ Prepare your mind to be mildly entertained by randomly selected themes, because who doesn't love a good #randomization in their syntax highlighting? 😂
https://arborium.bearcove.eu/ #syntaxhighlighting #Arborium #treesitter #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Behold! A dazzling spectacle of syntax highlighting that only a true tree-sitter enthusiast could love. 🤓 Dive into the riveting world of "Arborium," where #WASM and #cargo join forces to deliver the most thrilling experience since watching paint dry. 🌳✨ Prepare your mind to be mildly entertained by randomly selected themes, because who doesn't love a good #randomization in their syntax highlighting? 😂
https://arborium.bearcove.eu/ #syntaxhighlighting #Arborium #treesitter #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Behold! A dazzling spectacle of syntax highlighting that only a true tree-sitter enthusiast could love. 🤓 Dive into the riveting world of "Arborium," where #WASM and #cargo join forces to deliver the most thrilling experience since watching paint dry. 🌳✨ Prepare your mind to be mildly entertained by randomly selected themes, because who doesn't love a good #randomization in their syntax highlighting? 😂
https://arborium.bearcove.eu/ #syntaxhighlighting #Arborium #treesitter #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Behold! A dazzling spectacle of syntax highlighting that only a true tree-sitter enthusiast could love. 🤓 Dive into the riveting world of "Arborium," where #WASM and #cargo join forces to deliver the most thrilling experience since watching paint dry. 🌳✨ Prepare your mind to be mildly entertained by randomly selected themes, because who doesn't love a good #randomization in their syntax highlighting? 😂
https://arborium.bearcove.eu/ #syntaxhighlighting #Arborium #treesitter #HackerNews #ngated

One Open-source Project Daily

A cat(1) clone with wings.

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

#1ospd #opensource #cli #commandline #git #hacktoberfest #rust #syntaxhighlighting #terminal #tool

Code written in Rust🦀️ fails fast rather than having memory consistency errors. But when it fails, it fails hard, as seen in yesterday's Cloudflare outage.

Is it time for syntax highlighters to highlight panic! and unwrap the same way?

#rustlang #cloudflare #CloudflareOutage #SyntaxHighlighting

Is there a light, viable code syntax highlighting solution that uses the Custom Highlight API?

Searched around, also found a post by @bramus that suggested Prism could do this, but I found nothing to support this on prismjs.com. (Bramus, what did I miss?)

Any suggestions or recommendations?

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-highlight-api-1/

#css #syntaxhighlighting #apis

High-Performance Syntax Highlighting With [the] CSS Highlights API, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://pavi2410.com/blog/high-performance-syntax-highlighting-with-css-highlights-api/

#css #apis #syntaxhighlighting

Now I learned that you can include parts of a source file into Javadoc with

{@snippet file=SomeSource.java}

and this since JDK-18. Yet it took only a very short time to notice that something important is missing:😩

https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8352691

#Java #Javadoc #codeSnippets #syntaxHighlighting

Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/syntax-highlighting/

#HackerNews #Doing #my #own #syntax #highlighting #(finally) #syntaxhighlighting #DIY #coding #programming #webdevelopment

I can get behind this (for quite a while, I didn’t use syntax-highlighting & didn’t miss it; now I do):

“Why I Use Minimal Syntax Highlighting” [2019], Caleb Spare (https://ctrl-c.us/posts/highlight).

#SyntaxHighlighting #Programming #UX #Go #GoLang #Minimalism #Color

So many counter-arguments in the comments 🍿:

“I Am Sorry, But Everyone Is Getting Syntax Highlighting Wrong”, Nikita Prokopov (https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45596960

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/bkoa67/i_am_sorry_everyone_is_getting_syntax

#SyntaxHighlighting #Color #Programming #UX

I Am Sorry, but Everyone Is Getting Syntax Highlighting Wrong, by @nikitonsky:

https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

#syntaxhighlighting #informationdesign #plugins

🌈 Syntax highlighting: the modern-day Christmas lights for your code, where everything screams for attention and you're left squinting through a rainbow-infested forest of variables and punctuation. 🎄💡 The article suggests there's a right way to wield this tool, but we're too busy getting lost in the psychedelic spaghetti to care. 🍝🤯
https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/ #syntaxhighlighting #codinghumor #programmerlife #rainbowcode #techtrends #codingtips #HackerNews #ngated

🌈 Syntax highlighting: the modern-day Christmas lights for your code, where everything screams for attention and you're left squinting through a rainbow-infested forest of variables and punctuation. 🎄💡 The article suggests there's a right way to wield this tool, but we're too busy getting lost in the psychedelic spaghetti to care. 🍝🤯
https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/ #syntaxhighlighting #codinghumor #programmerlife #rainbowcode #techtrends #codingtips #HackerNews #ngated

🌈 Syntax highlighting: the modern-day Christmas lights for your code, where everything screams for attention and you're left squinting through a rainbow-infested forest of variables and punctuation. 🎄💡 The article suggests there's a right way to wield this tool, but we're too busy getting lost in the psychedelic spaghetti to care. 🍝🤯
https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/ #syntaxhighlighting #codinghumor #programmerlife #rainbowcode #techtrends #codingtips #HackerNews #ngated

🌈 Syntax highlighting: the modern-day Christmas lights for your code, where everything screams for attention and you're left squinting through a rainbow-infested forest of variables and punctuation. 🎄💡 The article suggests there's a right way to wield this tool, but we're too busy getting lost in the psychedelic spaghetti to care. 🍝🤯
https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/ #syntaxhighlighting #codinghumor #programmerlife #rainbowcode #techtrends #codingtips #HackerNews #ngated

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

#HackerNews #syntaxhighlighting #syntaxerrors #codingcommunity #developers #blogpost #techdebate

🚀✨ Behold, the next evolution: a feline doppelgänger with the gift of syntax illumination! Because who wouldn't want their command line tool to possess the superior ability to add colors to your mistakes? 😸🌈 Let's just hope it can also catch those bugs it's highlighting! 🐞🔍
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat #felineinnovation #syntaxhighlighting #commandlinetools #colorcoding #bugcatching #HackerNews #ngated

Three Algorithms for YSH Syntax Highlighting

https://codeberg.org/oils/oils.vim/src/branch/main/doc/algorithms.md

#HackerNews #Algorithms #YSH #SyntaxHighlighting #Codeberg #Vim #Programming

Ah yes, GitHub Issues: the world's most *almost* perfect notebook. 🎉 Who needs actual notebooks when you can have links and syntax highlighting 🖍️ in a never-ending sea of #markdown and URLs? Just don't try to find your notes without a search engine! 🕵️‍♂️
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/notes/ #GitHubIssues #Notetaking #SyntaxHighlighting #Productivity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, GitHub Issues: the world's most *almost* perfect notebook. 🎉 Who needs actual notebooks when you can have links and syntax highlighting 🖍️ in a never-ending sea of #markdown and URLs? Just don't try to find your notes without a search engine! 🕵️‍♂️
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/notes/ #GitHubIssues #Notetaking #SyntaxHighlighting #Productivity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, GitHub Issues: the world's most *almost* perfect notebook. 🎉 Who needs actual notebooks when you can have links and syntax highlighting 🖍️ in a never-ending sea of #markdown and URLs? Just don't try to find your notes without a search engine! 🕵️‍♂️
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/notes/ #GitHubIssues #Notetaking #SyntaxHighlighting #Productivity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, GitHub Issues: the world's most *almost* perfect notebook. 🎉 Who needs actual notebooks when you can have links and syntax highlighting 🖍️ in a never-ending sea of #markdown and URLs? Just don't try to find your notes without a search engine! 🕵️‍♂️
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/notes/ #GitHubIssues #Notetaking #SyntaxHighlighting #Productivity #HackerNews #ngated

Working on making a syntax highlighter for my new #esolang, Bespoke. I'm using Tree-sitter, because a Textmate grammar wouldn't be powerful enough.

So far, it recognizes each word as a series of "digit" tokens and colors those. I will tweak it to support the actual instructions!

#programming #programminglanguage #code #coding #language #syntaxhighlighting #treesitter

TIL `ripgrep` can output the search results in json format. And it can be used by utilities like `delta` to render syntax highlighted output!

rg --json -C 2 handle | delta

https://dandavison.github.io/delta/grep.html

Also, `delta` is cool :)

#TIL #ripgrep #delta #grep #SyntaxHighlighting #json #rg #commandline #cli