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It's definitely weird in this day and age, but in the Go code examples... I don't miss it. Paraphrasing, but if you need syntax highlighting to comprehend code

It's definitely weird in this day and age, but in the Go code examples... I don't miss it. Paraphrasing, but if you need syntax highlighting to comprehend code, maybe your code is too complicated.

alkonaut 1y ago
How does that matter, if it's more _easily_ comprehended (faster, with less effort, with fewer mistakes in comprehension) with the highlighting, for any level of complexity? Not choosing to use syntax highlighting is just wrong on every level. It has exactly zero drawbacks.
- aranw 1y ago
  > if it's more _easily_ comprehended (faster, with less effort, with fewer mistakes in comprehension) with the highlighting But this is completely relevant to the person reading. It may be for you easier with highlighting but someone else it may not be
  - alkonaut 1y ago
    Yes. And there should be studies that show that the number of people who are hampered by syntax highlighting is probably so vanishingly small sompared to those that are either helped or not helped (unhelped, but not hampered) Syntax highlighting studies usually don't report on whether some subjects perform worse with syntax highlighting - usually only that they as a group perform better. But even with that evidence, it should be obvious that syntax highlighting should be either on for everyone, or on initially and off as an option for the rare individual. https://ppig.org/files/2015-PPIG-26th-Sarkar1.pdf https://ppig.org/files/2015-PPIG-26th-Sarkar1.pdf
lordofgibbons 1y ago
That's just suffering for suffering sake with no fathomable benefit. Why not reduce cognitive overhead if you can get it for free?
yawboakye 1y ago
one wonders why colors exists after all. why, we should know all about vegetation, streams, living, and non-living organisms so that their chromatic attributes are very unnecessary. monochrome for the win! i propose dark gray btw /s on a more serious note: somehow nature choose to let us see colors, and this sense has been immensely useful to our existence and pleasure. maybe go could learn a thing or two from nature?

It's definitely weird in this day and age, but in the Go code examples... I don't miss it. Paraphrasing, but if you need syntax highlighting to comprehend code, maybe your code is too complicated.

alkonaut 1y ago

How does that matter, if it's more _easily_ comprehended (faster, with less effort, with fewer mistakes in comprehension) with the highlighting, for any level of complexity? Not choosing to use syntax highlighting is just wrong on every level. It has exactly zero drawbacks.

aranw 1y ago
> if it's more _easily_ comprehended (faster, with less effort, with fewer mistakes in comprehension) with the highlighting But this is completely relevant to the person reading. It may be for you easier with highlighting but someone else it may not be
- alkonaut 1y ago
  Yes. And there should be studies that show that the number of people who are hampered by syntax highlighting is probably so vanishingly small sompared to those that are either helped or not helped (unhelped, but not hampered) Syntax highlighting studies usually don't report on whether some subjects perform worse with syntax highlighting - usually only that they as a group perform better. But even with that evidence, it should be obvious that syntax highlighting should be either on for everyone, or on initially and off as an option for the rare individual. https://ppig.org/files/2015-PPIG-26th-Sarkar1.pdf https://ppig.org/files/2015-PPIG-26th-Sarkar1.pdf

lordofgibbons 1y ago

That's just suffering for suffering sake with no fathomable benefit. Why not reduce cognitive overhead if you can get it for free?

yawboakye 1y ago

one wonders why colors exists after all. why, we should know all about vegetation, streams, living, and non-living organisms so that their chromatic attributes are very unnecessary. monochrome for the win! i propose dark gray btw /s on a more serious note: somehow nature choose to let us see colors, and this sense has been immensely useful to our existence and pleasure. maybe go could learn a thing or two from nature?