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I did the same thing, but implemented my site generator in Go. My site has grown by a lot over the years, but I can still build it from scratch (from MD files, HTML snippets and static files) in less than one second! Also have a RSS feed generator and it can highlight code in most programming languages, which is important to me as I write posts on many languages. I did try Hugo before I went on to implement my own, and I got a few things from Hugo into mine, but Hugo just looked like far too overengineered for what I wanted (essentially, easy templating with markdown as the main language but able to include content from other files either in raw HTML or also markdown, with each file being able to define variables that can be used in the templating language which has support for the usual "expression language" constructs). I used the Go bu

I've used a markdown to html converter to convert my blog posts into HTML with very nice and customizable code samples... in my case I used Go's Blackfriday library with bfchroma[1] doing syntax highlighting with Chroma[2]. To add your language to Chroma you have to provide a lexer, which in turn is written in Pygments[3] syntax. Once you have that, you can post your docs in GitHub Pages (or something like Netlify[4] or Cloudflare[5]), they both can run a command to build your website (from markdown to html) every time you push to a branch, and then serve the HTML generated as a static site. Before this though, your language seems similar enough to others (maybe Java or C#?) that if you tell the converter to use those languages, you'll get decent enough highlighting. I did this to highlight Zig code before it became supported by telling t

See also: Chroma (https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma) based on Pygments (https://pygments.org). JS libs like Highlight.js and Prisma.js can be ran server side and then you send the HTML/CSS like normal. Generally you'd want to pre-render blogs so syntax highlighting should be compiled HTML/CSS during the build process. CF workers and other edge computing work great if you have dynamic content if you don't want the client to use JS. For non-readonly, Monaco and Codemirror are available but heavier ofc. Anyone else know of another perf syntax highlighting lib? I like collecting tech.

In Go we have https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma, and I implemented the lexer that the Caddy docs use for syntax highlighting the Caddyfile (see https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/concepts for example). What's cool about this is Caddy is serving the site from markdown files rendered via Go templates, with Chroma for code blocks. So Caddy can highlight its own config.

> Why do Go articles so often have no syntax highlighting? Rob Pike, one of the 3 original Go architects, has stated in the past he doesn’t like syntax highlighting [1]. > Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods). I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals. — Rob Pike Maybe Sergey Kamardin, the author of this article, is following Rob Pike’s philosophy. That being said, the website has references to a Go library called Chroma [2] which purpose is to colorize source code. The library borrows ideas from a popular JavaScript library called “highlight.js” [3] and that is why you can also see “highlight” CSS classes. The website downloads this CSS file [4] which contains a couple of instructions to make the code look the way it looks. Th

Have a look at http://pygments.org/ or https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma where you can pass code into a library and it returns highlighted HTML. You can use Pygments in Java using Jython but its performance is questionable and can be incredibly slow when highlighting lisp code for example. Its a very edge case for most people, but seeing as I am working on a searchcode.com upgrade I need a fast highlighter. Currently I am spawning a background Go process using Chroma to take care of this for me, but if there was a decent Java library I would use it. None exist I am aware of that are even slightly up-to date.

hugo has recently started using a go-based syntax highlighter that's built in, called chroma i believe (https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma), which is supposed to be much faster than pygments. anyways, this project looks very interesting to me, i also currently use hugo for my static sites, but this looks much simpler, and the sass compilation is a nice feature too.