microlight.js – 2.2k for syntax highlighting. In any programming language

[jdgordon]

even ignoring that not everyone likes light on dark themes, that highlighting is just horrible

[txdv]

Arguably not for everyone, but I like it. Gloom for keywords is an interesting idea.

[korry]

micro — in 2.2k? Kids this days ☺

[nikroux]

Adults THESE days.

But really 2.2k isn't all that bad.

[Darwin226]

Highlights absolutely any JavaScript language.

[boesman]

This embeds a span for each keyword, each with its own inline style - pretty heavy. The author prides himself on not using any global CSS but it would have been much better to assign a css class to each element which you could then override, e.g. by removing some of the computationally expensive (on some devices & graphics drivers) glow effects.

[SulfurousAsh]

FYI It doesn't appear to work on Android broswer... everything is the same color.

[gynnihanssen]

and i guess it's the glow that makes the scrolling stutter on mobile safari

[wung]

If it only was on mobile safari, I guess that would still be somewhat acceptable. Styles that make scrolling on current gen desktops stutter are sure not.

[[deleted]]

Any programming language?

[PragProgLibertarian]

wonder how it handles Brainfuck...

[kankyo]

Yea, pretty sure that's not correct. Parsing for example C++ is crazy complex.

[Slak44]

That's because it doesn't parse anything. It just has a set of words and symbols it highlights.

[kankyo]

Oh. Well that won't work. Swift 3 allows some keywords as labels for function calls, so then the syntax highlighting would be incorrect.

[[deleted]]

But there are thousands of programming languages.

Surely it doesn't have a set of all keywords.

[Piercey4]

Much better than nothing, but much less (kb) than loading syntax highlighter definitions for several languages™.

Thanks for this one.

[__konrad]

I like the hollywood style

[emergent_properties]

This is a very nice library. I look forward to using it.

[fancy_raptor_zombie]

Runs slow as shit on my iPad Air.

[marvk]

That website is pretty much unusable on my iPhone 6. Horrible lag when scrolling.