If I may give you some advice: you could have made this point without telling me I don't know JS well, without misrepresenting me and without wasting both of ou

If I may give you some advice: you could have made this point without telling me I don't know JS well, without misrepresenting me and without wasting both of our time by just making this point from the start. Because you are technically correct that, in the limited case of a template immediately being passed to a function, syntax highlighting can use the same heuristics that are currently used in JS. But, as I assumed previously, in doing so you're simply ignoring my point: syntax highlighting for tagged template literals isn't applicable to only a subset of uses because they are by design less complex. Your counter example was using a different template tag and not using the actual tag as a template tag, which obviously doesn't work in the context of syntax highlighting for that template tag. Had you not played games with this technicality, we could both have saved a lot of time. Hope you had fun I guess.