Syntax highlighting is pretty redundant. Some interesting alternative uses of colour information are given at https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/synta

Syntax highlighting is pretty redundant. Some interesting alternative uses of colour information are given at https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highligh... (e.g. colouring different scopes, or different imports) I also like the idea of using colour to distinguish different identifiers, e.g. https://wordsandbuttons.online/lexical_differential_highlighting_instead_of_syntax_highlighting.html https://wordsandbuttons.online/lexical_differential_highligh... https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e https://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/c-ide-evolution-from-syntax-highlighting-to-semantic-highlighting/ https://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/c-ide-evolution-from...