[HN Gopher] Small stupid things that make up my dev environment
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       Small stupid things that make up my dev environment
        
       Author : compiler-guy
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-11-27 16:00 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | thefaux wrote:
       | Amen on syntax highlighting. We collectively have wasted a
       | staggering amount of tine on this finnicky anti-feature.
       | Personally I used it for at least a decade until I finally
       | realized it was 98% distraction. When you think about it, it
       | becomes obvious that almost all code you are reading must be
       | syntactically correct, unless you've recently edited it. If the
       | language needs syntax highlighting to be legible, that is a
       | language issue. My theory for why it is so popular is that it can
       | be low hanging fruit for validating code that is faster than the
       | full compiler. But even in that case, I only want syntax errors
       | to be highlighted. To me, syntax highlighting of correct code is
       | simply unnecessary noise.
       | 
       | That being said, if you genuinely believe syntax highlighting
       | makes you more productive, I won't argue with you. I just think
       | it's unfortunate it's been made the default in most cases.
        
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