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I love the appearance of it, but there are very few cases where sharing un-copyable blocks of code is actually what you want.

Let's say you're making a programming tutorial, or you're publishing an open source library and want to provide a website with code examples. Appearance is important, of course, but your audience will want to copy/paste your examples.

I feel like this should be a CSS generator for styling the <code> or <pre> tag. If you really want to have a built-in screenshot exporter as well, I suppose that's fine too!

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It's _really_ good for Twitter posts. Formatting is non-existent, so sharing an image is unfortunately the best way to do it in-feed. Links to Gists, etc are the best if you don't mind leaving Twitter for sure. That said, if images are a necessity, might as well make it look good with Carbon.

Or just link to pastebin/your-favorite-alternative where someone can view it while looking good + copyable? I get that it isn't "in-feed", but I think most people would prefer that over having to find some OCR software that likes this specific font and feed an image into it.

It's not either/or. You can use this to add an image to your post containing the link. Or a code-snippet website could use code like this to generate preview images to show up on Twitter.

I use it for presentations and have found it incredibly useful for that.

How do you share code snippets on Twitter?

That's a good point! I don't use use Twitter, so that hadn't occurred to me!

You upgrade to a platform that was made for sharing code snippets and not flinging insults and blogspam

I find it frustrating that you not only failed to answer the question to which you responded, but you also failed to provide the name of the alternative platform you so condescendingly espoused.

A disingenuous answer is still an answer. Just because it's trendy to abuse a medium like Twitter for all sorts of unintended purposes doesn't mean its good or right.

That’s not an answer though, that’s just unhelpful snark. I use Twitter because that's where my audience is. I don't have the social clout to move everyone somewhere else.

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