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Comment by Narishma | Hacker News Reader

Do people really like this type of syntax highlighting? The screenshots in the article to me are a hard to read color soup.

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It's very useful when trying to find matching brackets in code!

In just basic Vim, there's highlighting such that if the cursor is over a start bracket (or end bracket), the opposite bracket is highlighted. I do find that very helpful indeed to find matching brackets (or where a bracket is missing), but I can't quite see why I'd need to have the colorization as well. Essentially I guess I can see colorization as 'highlighting' multiple brackets at once. Any way you could convince me that having this multiple identification has been preferable to the single identification?

I recently switched from an old VScode version, which has only the click dependent matching, to the new version which has it with color highlighting. The difference is that you can match brackets pretty much immediately by glancing at them. It's convenient because it is quicker.

Gotchagotcha, so yeah, to some extent eliminates the time taken to highlight individual brackets at the cost of adding some visual complexity. Thanks.

> In just basic Vim, there's highlighting such that if the cursor is over a start bracket (or end bracket), the opposite bracket is highlighted.

VS Code does that too and I think that's plenty to find matching brackets.

Never understood colored brackets either, it looks like a noisy rainbow to me. But I think it might depend on the language+theme combination you're using.

I'm a big fan. My source code looks like a rave. I think it depends on your neurotype quite a bit though.

Yeah, I find the 'every symbol has a color' highlighting to be difficult to parse.

When everything is colorful, nothing stands out.

I agree. That’s a bit much.

Yep, it's great

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