Comment by gnicholas

6 years ago

Some people are reacting to the (clickbait-y) title, which is a more extreme statement than what the author ends up advocating. The ultimate argument is that it's ok to syntax highlight sometimes, but sometimes it might be helpful to use color in other ways.

Personally, I find syntax highlighting to be very useful, but I also agree that using color in other ways can be more useful at times. As it happens, syntax highlighting was one of the inspirations for the color gradient text pattern I developed to make reading on screen easier. [1] The existence of syntax highlighting helped me to think about color in text as an information channel that can be used to make certain tasks more efficient, so I'm very grateful for that!