Sup brothers. I've heard that some of you don't use syntax highlighting and it got me interested, what are the actual benefits you've noticed? Or maybe when you first tried syntax highlighting, you've noticed that something was becoming worse in your routine, these stories would be great to hear too.
I've tried working without it a couple of times but couldn't understand what are the actual benefits. So, my eyes see a color X and I immediately understand that this is an enum. Is this a bad thing? What should be the focus then?
>it'd be interesting to find out why the person is eating soup that way lol >Maybe he's on to something I loled out loud and spit the soop I was eating with my hand all over my screen. Upvoted.
Juan Harris
syntax highlighting makes it easier to write unreadable code. with highlighting enabled, you can write complicated nested expressions that still look pretty because they're colorful, while hiding that they're actually harder to read semantically.
Brody Morales
>hiding that they're actually harder to read hiding from who? if the only people lost are those not using an ide then it's mission accomplished. deperson and deplatform the ide-less.
Josiah Ward
Do you have to underline all the verbs when you read a book? If you can't read your own code, you shouldn't cover by using syntax highlighting, just code better. Half the time it doesn't even work right. People can also get pretty autistic about their colorscheme, so it eliminates some wasted customizing time.
Jaxon Harris
they just NEETs thats all. Probably they dont use "go to method by clicking on it" feature too. You dont need things like that when you work only on
Jacob Edwards
user, you don't need to jump from place to place in a book most of the time. You have to find stuff fast and change it on the go. Is it still a bad thing though?
Gavin Jackson
>would you also rather eat soup without a spoon? yes >SLURRRRRRRP >MMMM THATS THE SHIT
the highlightless would, but it’s either broken or nonexistent in their minimalist text editor
Andrew Ortiz
retard, when people do book reviews they annotate and highlight parts of the text so they can jump back to it or get the important info at a glance
Easton Morgan
Don't know if you are trolling but I remember watching a video by Damian Conway who doesn't use syntax highlighting. You might find it interesting. Without syntax highlighting you can config it to make it so errors stand up.
those poeple are linuxtards who use vim and emacs and they are sour grapes because they cant set up syntax highlighting in their shitty 1970's text editor
Ryder Harris
False equivalence, and people highlight important information in technical books all the time
Jaxon Taylor
>So, my eyes see a color X and I immediately understand that this is an enum. Is this a bad thing? What should be the focus then? I find this very useful. Sure I can read code without, but I can find where I need to be in it much quicker with syntax highlighting. It also points out some common errors like putting an O instead of a 0, or the sort of fuckery that multiline comments or #if 0 can cause.
Daniel Long
It's like coding with training wheels on. If you're a retard, it's required forever. If you're not a retard you can take the training wheels off.
