"The best way I can describe it is to compare it to reading a book. When I read a book, I don't want parts of speech highlighted in different colours. What I wa

"The best way I can describe it is to compare it to reading a book. When I read a book, I don't want parts of speech highlighted in different colours. What I want to do is to read the book, to take in the information." I found this interesting, as my reaction has been almost the complete opposite. I've never felt that syntax highlighting played a part in understanding code at a high level. Syntax highlighting is there for when I'm reading my code like a copy-editor. It (along with an inline linter) is there to make syntactical errors more obvious so I can deal with them as I make them.