I learned to code back when there was no syntax highlighting. You had one face, one font, one color on your 80x25 terminal. It might have been green, or amber,

I learned to code back when there was no syntax highlighting. You had one face, one font, one color on your 80x25 terminal. It might have been green, or amber, or white(ish) but that was it. I'd prefer minimal-to-no syntax highlighting except for things that should NOT be there. Nonexisting keywords should be highlighted. Unclosed strings. Unbalanced parens or brackets. I like making comments their own color so you can easily separate them from actual code but I'm otherwise in the minimal camp.