Tbh <pre> + monospace font + padding already makes a lot of code snippets readable, you can also write a 10 line js function to generate highlight for only the

Tbh <pre> + monospace font + padding already makes a lot of code snippets readable, you can also write a 10 line js function to generate highlight for only the comments (to make them lesser shade of gray), i think that solves a lot of readability with very minimal work. Also I think there's no shame in using highlight.js