“Explainer: Tree-sitter Vs. LSP”, Ashton Wiersdorf (https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719899
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/qhickw/explainer_tree_sitter_vs_lsp
#LSP #TreeSitter #LanguageServerProtocol #Editors #SyntaxHighlighting #Parsers #Parsing
Published my port of the Alabaster theme family for Helix.
Alabaster is a minimal syntax highlighting approach by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) - only 4 semantic colors: strings, constants, comments, and definitions. Everything else stays plain text because code structure is already clear from formatting.
I've ported all 6 variants (light/dark × standard/BG/mono) from the original Sublime theme (staying as close as possible to the original). Also submitted a PR to ship these with Helix upstream!
Original theme: https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster
Read tonsky's essay: https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/
My port: https://github.com/wolf/alabaster-for-helix
I tried to duplicate the original exactly, however Helix has multiple selections so I made the colors distinct between "selection" and "primary-selection".
#HelixEditor #Helix #Alabaster #MinimalDesign #SyntaxHighlighting #TextEditor #Rust
I program without syntax highlighting
https://hakon.gylterud.net/opinion/syntax-highlighting.html
#HackerNews #I #program #without #syntax #highlighting #programming #syntaxhighlighting #coding #opinion #developer
A font that highlights TeX syntax? Groundbreaking! 🤯 Forget years of innovation in editors and typesetting systems - just slap a color palette on your font and call it a day! 🎨 Who needs #usability when you have... colors? 🤦♂️
https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a-font-with-built-in-tex-syntax-highlighting/ #fontdesign #syntaxhighlighting #TeXinnovation #colors #HackerNews #ngated
🚀 Breaking news! 🎉 Web developers are now expected to install a font to solve all their coding woes. Because clearly, the problem with hand-coding websites wasn't the lack of caffeine or sanity, but the absence of syntax-highlighted fonts. 😂
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/ #WebDevelopment #FontInstall #CodingHumor #SyntaxHighlighting #DeveloperLife #HackerNews #ngated
🚀 Behold! A dazzling spectacle of syntax highlighting that only a true tree-sitter enthusiast could love. 🤓 Dive into the riveting world of "Arborium," where #WASM and #cargo join forces to deliver the most thrilling experience since watching paint dry. 🌳✨ Prepare your mind to be mildly entertained by randomly selected themes, because who doesn't love a good #randomization in their syntax highlighting? 😂
https://arborium.bearcove.eu/ #syntaxhighlighting #Arborium #treesitter #HackerNews #ngated
One Open-source Project Daily
A cat(1) clone with wings.
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
#1ospd #opensource #cli #commandline #git #hacktoberfest #rust #syntaxhighlighting #terminal #tool
Everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Open question for folks who've written/maintained #SyntaxHighlighting engines/themes/modes (in #Emacs lingo): either for #CodeEditors or #documentation :
Do you maintain keyword-lists/regular-expressions for terms _in_ the relevant specification that are not used as function/variable/module identifiers? And if so, how do you distinguish them from such "active" particles?
E.g., GSUB lookups in the std have specific names like SingleSubstFormat1 . Ideally that's not reused.
#roostForBeach
Code written in Rust🦀️ fails fast rather than having memory consistency errors. But when it fails, it fails hard, as seen in yesterday's Cloudflare outage.
Is it time for syntax highlighters to highlight panic! and unwrap the same way?
Is there a light, viable code syntax highlighting solution that uses the Custom Highlight API?
Searched around, also found a post by @bramus that suggested Prism could do this, but I found nothing to support this on prismjs.com. (Bramus, what did I miss?)
Any suggestions or recommendations?
High-Performance Syntax Highlighting With [the] CSS Highlights API, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
https://pavi2410.com/blog/high-performance-syntax-highlighting-with-css-highlights-api/
Now I learned that you can include parts of a source file into Javadoc with
{@snippet file=SomeSource.java}
and this since JDK-18. Yet it took only a very short time to notice that something important is missing:😩
Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/syntax-highlighting/
#HackerNews #Doing #my #own #syntax #highlighting #(finally) #syntaxhighlighting #DIY #coding #programming #webdevelopment
I can get behind this (for quite a while, I didn’t use syntax-highlighting & didn’t miss it; now I do):
“Why I Use Minimal Syntax Highlighting” [2019], Caleb Spare (https://ctrl-c.us/posts/highlight).
#SyntaxHighlighting #Programming #UX #Go #GoLang #Minimalism #Color
So many counter-arguments in the comments 🍿:
“I Am Sorry, But Everyone Is Getting Syntax Highlighting Wrong”, Nikita Prokopov (https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45596960
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/bkoa67/i_am_sorry_everyone_is_getting_syntax
I Am Sorry, but Everyone Is Getting Syntax Highlighting Wrong, by @nikitonsky:
🌈 Syntax highlighting: the modern-day Christmas lights for your code, where everything screams for attention and you're left squinting through a rainbow-infested forest of variables and punctuation. 🎄💡 The article suggests there's a right way to wield this tool, but we're too busy getting lost in the psychedelic spaghetti to care. 🍝🤯
https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/ #syntaxhighlighting #codinghumor #programmerlife #rainbowcode #techtrends #codingtips #HackerNews #ngated
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/
#HackerNews #syntaxhighlighting #syntaxerrors #codingcommunity #developers #blogpost #techdebate
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