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This idea is related to "rainbow parentheses" (e.g. for Lisp): different levels of parens just get arbitrary different colors. But matching parens are the same color, just like two occurrences of %ecx in the same line are the same.

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In emacs there's a package rainbow-delimiters-mode for parantheses, braces, brackets and what not, and rainbow-identifier-mode which makes variables names unique colors.

It's legitimately one of the best features of Excel. Does anybody know how I can achieve that in Sublime? The few options I found were subpar.

I'd love to know the answer to this as well, it would be so useful.

Don't know about Sublime, but there's a plugin that does this for Visual Studio.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TomasRes...

Probably not helpful to you, but maybe some other lurker.

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