Does everyone's code highlight on Discourse look so bland?

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To my knowledge, Fredrik’s branch has not (yet) been upstreamed into highlights.js. It’d be great if it could!

Just to be clear, the things we have control over on Discourse are:

  • The default highlighting language — this is set to julia

  • The enabled highlighting languages — this is set to 33 languages and we can add more if you find it’d be helpful.

    List of currently enabled languages 
    julia
julia-repl
bash
cpp
cs
css
diff
fortran
go
haskell
http
ini
java
javascript
json
llvm
makefile
markdown
mathematica
matlab
objectivec
perl
php
python
r
ruby
rust
sql
shell
swift
tex
xml
yaml

  • I think the themes’ CSS should be able to override the default styling of the identifiers. This doesn’t change which identifiers and syntaxes are highlighted, but it changes how they are highlighted. The defaults are here pulled from code_highlighting.scss I believe.

All of this is completely unrelated to how VS Code does its highlighting, which is powered by TextMate grammars.

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