I also tried coding without syntax highlighting but it only lasted a few months. One of the downsides is that when you show your code to other developers who d

I also tried coding without syntax highlighting but it only lasted a few months. One of the downsides is that when you show your code to other developers who don't have the necessary visual bandwidth, they get uncomfortable. One of the few things syntax highlighting actually helps with is for catching typos in keywords. (To the trained eye, this could be replaced with just bolding or italicizing the keywords.) Today I'm using "the colorful words" again (as non-technical associates have described syntax highlighted code), and still looking for a syntax highlighting theme which does not look like crap. (Gruvbox is the closest I've gotten yet.) Giving each identifier its own color (e.g. https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e) is another interesting idea.