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Great addition. For me this is a use case for conditional highlighting. What I do in my code additionally is to avoid block comments. So you can differentiate them better from your code.

Comments are the most important part of code. They should not be dimmed. If anything, they should be the only thing that is highlighted.

I think that this is dependent on what you are trying to do. If you want to understand what a program does than this is the way to go. If you want to program than you don't necessarily need the comments to be that visible.

I'm arguing that dimming them makes them easier to see. Code and comments are interspersed, and are each harder to see when they're the same color.

I use a slightly more intense background color on comments to make them stand out while still being readable enough.

My highlighting scheme is to very slightly dim comments, because they tend to be more dense than code. For example: http://imgur.com/a/bxfBO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051032