Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)

code.visualstudio.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 247 posts

Re: How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)

#7

Post by quietbritishjim »

Solvency wrote: post #2

And yet, somehow, no one has done anything to address the inherent issues for colorblind developers. All of these colorization add-ons are woefully inadequate in that regard.

Seems like a fundamentally unsolvable problem. These techinques use a spectrum of colours for deeply nested brackets. (If you only have one or two levels of brackets then you don't need the colourisation in the first place.) But colourblind users fundamentally don't have that many choices of colours to pick from in the first place.

Re: How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)

#8

Post by voz_ »

If you can make something 10k x faster you didn’t so much fix it as just switch it to working correctly as it should have in the first place.

VSCode is a good tool, but it’s unbearably slow, and it breaks my heart that so much development has converged on something written in electron with such a low regard for performance by any measure.

Re: How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)

#9

Post by nsajko »

kaveet wrote: post #5
Solvency wrote: post #2

And yet, somehow, no one has done anything to address the inherent issues for colorblind developers. All of these colorization add-ons are woefully inadequate in that regard.

Any interest in working together on a new extension?

See XKCD: "How standards proliferate".

Re: How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)

#10

Post by Conscat »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #7
Solvency wrote: post #2

And yet, somehow, no one has done anything to address the inherent issues for colorblind developers. All of these colorization add-ons are woefully inadequate in that regard.

Seems like a fundamentally unsolvable problem. These techinques use a spectrum of colours for deeply nested brackets. (If you only have one or two levels of brackets then you don't need the colourisation in the first place.) But colourblind users fundamentally don't have that many choices of colours to pick from in the first place.

Modus Operandi provides accessibility options for colored bracket pairs in Emacs out of the box.
Post reply on HN