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Why Good Syntax Highlighting is Important

Ashish Bailkeri on October 17, 2021

All code snippets posted are under the MIT License So does it really matter? Yes. There good programming practices in certain program...
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Denis

Personally, I find color schemes with such colors as in the first example quite toxic and unpleasant to my eyes. It's quite subjective, but I would prefer JetBrains' Darcula theme because of aesthetic and softness, and I don't experience any issues with distinguishing syntax elements, it feels okay!

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Ashish Bailkeri

That's perfectly fine. Personally I like the first one because I can match the syntax with the property faster, it really is personal preference, but picking syntax highlighting that is suited to your programming is always more efficient.

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Mohamed Alsharaf

Everyone have their own preferences and that is ok🙂

Personally I like Phpstorm with dark material theme UI, Friday Mario, and Power mode 2 😅

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Ashish Bailkeri

Interesting themes! Yep, I agree that syntax highlighting is subjective, and you should definitely pick one that you prefer over anything else like it says in the article.

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Hitesh Ale • Edited

Ofc its important even textpad++ got it.

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Manoj Shukla

Higihlighting syntax helps to make code easy to understand & improve its readiblity.

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Paweł Kowalski

I would also say that font legibility is also very important. Its a pleasure to work with a good font + nicely colored code. :)

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Ashish Bailkeri

I agree! I totally recommend Iosevka, it's pretty good.

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Alex

What theme on first screen?

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Ashish Bailkeri

It's called RainbowDrops, rather a modified version of it. It's based on the original Eclipse Dark Theme.

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Alex

ty!

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Tomás Wolf • Edited

Just created this account to give a shout-out to GapStyle the best semantic highlighting I've seen.
Please give it a try, I use it in CLion and in vscode