SLslimsag·Nov 28, 2020
> Awesome, I look forward to that - you'll post a "show HN" for it, I hope? :) Does syntect's lack of support for the newest sublime-syntax features cause you any problems?
Show HN -> Yep :)
Lack of support for newest sublime-syntax features: less than you would expect, but a little for sure.
Most of the syntax definitions in the wild today don't really use the newer features, at Sourcegraph I wrote a little Rust HTTP server wrapping syntect[1] and we use it for all our syntax highlighting for the past several years, I would say it works on like 95% of code files even if you include a lot of additional syntaxes that are untested with Syntect[2]. That said, it does barf hard on some specific files - either taking a really long time to do the work or getting completely stuck in a busy waiting loop for some reason. That said, it's still the
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2nd best syntax highlighter out there (second only to Sublime itself.)
One of my hopes for this side project is that I'll be able to contribute more time upstream with e.g. a more extensive test suite for Syntect against a much larger number of syntax definitions from the wild instead of just Sublime's built-in ones.
[1] https://github.com/sourcegraph/syntect_server
[2] https://github.com/slimsag/Packages/#license