Commenting of HN is very different than writing educational context. Colors made it really easier to show correspondences in-between languages, especially when

Commenting of HN is very different than writing educational context. Colors made it really easier to show correspondences in-between languages, especially when they are in different order. I also had the problem the other day when writing software documentation (imagine code portion without colors... hopefully in this case third party lib are doing the job). You (and other posters) can ironize as much as they want, the truth is dealing with colored text in Markdown is equals to inputting raw HTML, as which point mixing the two markup languages is more painful than going raw HTML.