Syntax highlighting is more than the article is mentioning, it seems author comment is focused on old highlighters. Once when you get used to one theme brain is

Syntax highlighting is more than the article is mentioning, it seems author comment is focused on old highlighters. Once when you get used to one theme brain is not even noticing, unless as shown in example colors are highly offending to aesthetic (the one in the article is hurting my brain). In modern editors as VSCode there is a huge range of adjustments. Nowadays we can do more than just see what are commands, keywords, increments ... we can see unused variables/import, mistyped variable, see bracket that are not closed, comments, etc. With syntax highlighters can be applied same rule as with UI, pleasing interface make it more usable. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/