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It's the opposite of syntax highlighting, it's highlighting which is syntax.



I guess I'm saying I don't see the distinction.

How would you store that highlighting to disk?


In a .pdf?

In seriousness, I think this kind of extreme highlighting could be an important step in making programming more accessible. There are only so many characters like ,;:.()[]{}<> available to use in code, and often most of them indicate completely different things in different places.

Done the right way, and combined with live evaluation á la Bret Victor or the Swift playground, I think this has the potential to be the next paradigm of accessible programming, after Excel.




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