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He's making arguments against it, yes. But he's not saying it as a piece of fact. I can see why you think that, but it's still an opinion piece. For me, syntax
by bpchaps 10y ago
He's making arguments against it, yes. But he's not saying it as a piece of fact. I can see why you think that, but it's still an opinion piece.
For me, syntax highlighting is a crutch that I want to avoid. I find myself glancing at my code rather than actually reading my code when it's enabled. It's an incredibly refreshing feeling to turn it off and just go back into vi. My code becomes shorter, easier to read, faster and much easier to maintain.
- acbabis 10y agoI can't argue with that, but shouldn't you want to eventually take off the training weights so you can go that much faster?
- bpchaps 10y agoI do all the time. I spend a significant portion of my time using Jupyter, which has syntax highlighting and other 'improvements'. I really dislike it. Then again, I'm within a shell in tmux all day, so...