What is Carbon?
Carbon as they say themselves, let's you "Create and share beautiful images of your source code."
You can turn your boring code into a beautiful image like this:
Why would I use it?
Let me ask you, which one of these looks better?
const pluckDeep = key => obj => key.split('.').reduce((accum, key) => accum[key], obj)
const compose = (...fns) => res => fns.reduce((accum, next) => next(accum), res)
const unfold = (f, seed) => {
const go = (f, seed, acc) => {
const res = f(seed)
return res ? go(f, res[1], acc.concat([res[0]])) : acc
}
return go(f, seed, [])
}
OR:
If you picked #2 then Carbon is perfect for you! And if you picked #1, suit yourself!
How do I use it?
It's pretty simple! Head over to the Carbon website and just paste your code into the box!
Woah! Not that fast... 👀
Carbon also has a ton of themes that let you customize your image! Personally, I use "One Dark" for my images.
The End.
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Top comments (9)
If you're writing articles with code samples, then #1 above is ALWAYS a better choice - just an image of your code will serve to annoy readers. Actual text has many advantages over an image of text (accessibility, ability to copy, etc.). If however, you are stuck finding a header image for your article, then Carbon is definitely a good choice - I have done this myself.
yes! I think it would be nice to have an option to copy the code in the margin of the image✨
#1 for anything that should be readable in an asynchronous manner (blogs, papers, handout slides), thus being capable of being searched or copied
#2 if you want fancy slides for a presentation you or someone else will do irl.
My b&w T-shirt says: “Code should be boring” 😄
You can also use massCode - github.com/massCodeIO/massCode
Cuase it is Rust-frontend trend year
Here is an alternative rust application let you to render the source code into a beautiful image.
github.com/Aloxaf/silicon
thanks
👀 PSA
If you click the "Tweet" this - it stores your image on twitter and you can't ever delete it - so be careful if you paste credentials
Learned this the hard way, sadly.
A short and very useful article right there. In love it.