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I program without syntax highlighting
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#32As usual, I read the code sample before reading the article:
for (i=0;iIt may be just slightly more difficult, but then it's death by a thousand paper cuts if I'm reading code for 6-12 hours a day.
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#33> Once syntax highlighting is gone, you no longer priviledge the class of languages for which there exists a syntax highlighting. Language models made syntax highlighting extremely cheap to make.
What do you mean? LLMs are expensive.
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#34I program without syntax highlighting. Comes from a combination of learning shell scripts within vi (not vim) and the bloatedness of syntax highlighting and autocomplete nonsense. Coding without it all is a nice way to ensure that everything can be encapsulated within your brain. Leads to different abstractions and such. It's fun and I highly recommend it.
Also, the comments in here are really strangely negative. Let people have their preferences, weirdos.
Also also: so much of syntax highlighting and such is designed by people without color blindness. So a lot of syntax highlighting just doesn't work for me. It's wild to me that color blind people still have to be vocal about it.
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#35I travel in a city with white and black traffic signals
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#36>The first thing one thinks when going from highlighted to unhighlighted code might be «This code is just a grey mash of symbols». Though, this sensation quickly fades as one gets engaged in the code. This “getting in to the groove”-part of the programming session is remarkably short, and afterwards code is more readable than English.
>If the code is neatly organised, the «grey mash» quickly crystalises into a beautiful little universe of logically connected parts; each standing by it self, on its own line or in its own scope, but referencing each other in clear and beautiful ways
Delusions packaged as deep insights.
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#37I travel a city where traffic signals are white and black
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#38I prefer minimal syntax highlighting, using no more than 6 colors, and no bold/italic font change.
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#39Wow, I super cheat: I use syntax highlighting AND vim folds... but I code assembly with a C pre-processor for register usage naming.
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#40I program with syntax highlighting. I'm not convinced by the arguments of the article: - actively clicking on matching parentheses has the benefit of selecting that part - being more sensitive to the "beauty" of the code I think syntax highlighting doesn't get in the way of these two points. The only valid point: - No syntax highlighting automatically supports all languages True I guess. In the sense that no shoes su…
“no syntax highlighting supports all languages, therefore I don’t use any syntax highlighting” is not even a logical argument.