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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 19:36:53 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Developers who don't use syntax highlighting in their code editors are clearly psychopaths. I mean, who willingly chooses chaos?

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     Tobias Klausmann (klausman@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 19:36:52 JST Tobias Klausmann

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     @nixCraft I used to work with a very gifted C programmer who insisted on coding in ... joe.

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     Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 19:36:52 JST Peter Krefting

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     • Tobias Klausmann

     @klausman @nixCraft I still do. It does have syntax highlighting these days, though.

     Having learned programming in the Turbo Pascal editor, using Joe is just so much easier than trying to learn a new set of keybindings...

     https://dev.mycrobase.de/gitea/cn/joe-syntax

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     Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 19:39:27 JST Peter Krefting

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     @nixCraft Still, I wish I had semantic highlighting, and not only syntax highlighting. Something that could colour variables differently, so that I can easily spot where I have used j as the array index instead of i would significantly reduce the risk of introducing new bugs.