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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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The Importance of Syntax Highlighting

I think realistically the bold, the italics, there's only a small amount that actually needs to have any sort of syntax highlighting. I don't like colorize any of my syntax elements because eventually it just becomes like if everything is special, nothing is special. When I first started coding when I was very young, it was on like notepad and windows which had just black and white, nothing else. And I know my experience there, like having a little bit of syntax highlighting would have went a long way compared to just, okay, I've got just black andwhite.

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