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Stop Doing Syntax Highlighting
* Code was not supposed to be colourful
* Years of work yet no real-world use found for more than 4 colours
* Wanted to have more for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called printing your code and highlighting it
* "Oh no my terminal doesn't display 256 colours. My function declarations should be blue instead of yellow." - Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Look what code highlighters have been demanding your respect for all this time:
* Code was not supposed to be colourful
* Years of work yet no real-world use found for more than 4 colours
* Wanted to have more for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called printing your code and highlighting it
* "Oh no my terminal doesn't display 256 colours. My function declarations should be blue instead of yellow." - Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Look what code highlighters have been demanding your respect for all this time: