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Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by mikewhy on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:51AM (#13599726)
Yeah I'm not totally sure what was meant by that. They're plain text, thus parsable.

Maybe they meant that browsers don't usually have access to the file system, but that's changing and also not applicable since they're using Electron and have NodeJS at their disposal.

Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by lanna on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:02PM (#13599836)
plain text doesn't imply parsable; natural languages, for instance.