Reading code isn't the same as normal book or news reading. You don't need to actually read the whole code. Most of the time we looking for a specific variable

Reading code isn't the same as normal book or news reading. You don't need to actually read the whole code. Most of the time we looking for a specific variable or function call. Syntax highlighting allows you to filter out everything that's the wrong color to find what you're looking for faster. I've tried to look at code without highlighting and I can't read it because the color gives me additional context (metadata?) about the code.