Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel

Re:Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel by mmmkkaaayy on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:24AM (#23905998)

If you haven't before, I'd recommending giving Intellij's semantic highlight a look: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2017/01/make-sense-of-you...

Every variable name is assigned its own color, so you can track the data dependencies in your function using color. Similar to what the author suggests as "Type Highlighting"

Some might consider it distracting/overstimulating, but I find it both useful and it makes the code look a bit more 'artistic'.

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Re:Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel by lstamour on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @12:47AM (#23914021)

Many IDEs, IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code among them, also have plugins for "Rainbow brackets" (the ability to use different colours for different pairs of open and close brackets). WebStorm takes this a step farther and clearly highlights open and close tags in HTML, etc., if I recall correctly.

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Re:Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel by account42 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @10:14AM (#23906929)

KDevelop had this for a long time and I agree it is useful.

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