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This is surely a minority view.

Everyone uses syntax highlighting, for everything. for everything

I can't honestly believe the whole go community just decided to by like, oh gee, well Rob doesn't like it, I gues we'll just ignore what everyone else is doing and do our own thing.

For what it's worth, I use syntax highlighting in my go code, and so does http://tour.golang.org/

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And everyone uses it for a reason: color is one of the primary discriminators of human vision, it carries information efficiently and does it instantly, as clearly laid out in the Wikipedia article about visual search (pop-out effect) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_search

It seems strange that Rob Pike would call it "infantile". I don't think it's very modern (nor mature) to say that either, since it completely ignores years of research done on the subject by scientists. But then again, to each his/her own.

He isn't arguing that highlighting doesn't carry more information. I think he's saying that it carries useless or wrong information.

> Everyone uses syntax highlighting, for everything. for everything

I guess I'm not the mainstream kind of guy then.

I even use proportional font for coding.

Yup. Monospace fonts are only an artefact of typewriters.

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