The key takeaway for me is if you’re used to it, stopping or starting is like flipping your portrait photos on a vertical axis. I’m sure if I started and stuck with it, I would get used to it. But then I’m also picky enough that when my color schemes change from job to job, or software to software, I would just get annoyed.
I’m of that minority. I don’t like looking at Skittles all day so I never turned it on way back when. When I see it it’s uncomfortable. But I’ve been so comfortable reading code, I don’t think I’ve felt like I’m missing something by not having syntax highlighting.
The only time it’s ever useful is on the missing braces and the such, but I’ve built so many habits that I don’t run into that often and when I do I have very simple ways of getting around it. 🤷
Are you against using a single letter variable like e for element in iterating over things?
And lets you easily write metal languages due to the way you can pass around blocks. Think configuration as code type stuff.
This makes me want to write a function for you to add to numbers where the variables are leftumber and rightnumber, instead of x and y.
If you are owning every little part of the design in every nuance, sure. But how do you configure this in mysqll, postgres, etc etc. does your favorite framework support this easily.