> But last week, a friend at RC noted that she doesn't use syntax highlighting and doesn't use other noisy editor plugins. I've been curious about stopping usin

> But last week, a friend at RC noted that she doesn't use syntax highlighting and doesn't use other noisy editor plugins. I've been curious about stopping using syntax highlighting, and her reasoning really spoke to me, so I tried it. > I went and found a grayscale color scheme (since I do like a small amount of visual distinction for comments) and installed it. Immediately, I felt some relief. I disabled my LSP plugin in vim, disabled rust-analyzer. More relief. Ah, two other people who've "switched off the targeting computer". After reading so many comments on Hackernews (and hearing similar from colleagues) to the effect of "I can't live without syntax highlight/autocomplete/refactoring tools/other", I was beginning to think I was some sort of weirdo/grognard for not bothering with many of those features and becoming frustratingly distracted when working in an IDE where autocomplete is enabled.