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syntect
Rust2017–2021
trishume / syntect

syntect

Rust library for syntax highlighting using Sublime Text syntax definitions.

7Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.5KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Rust library for syntax highlighting using Sublime Text syntax definitions.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-02-08 16:57:32 UTC to 2021-05-21 09:00:26 UTC.

012342017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I like the uniform output, nice work! I personally think its easier to use something like the `sublime-syntax` grammar format to define a lexer (with a project like syntect[1]), rather than implementing each language's lexer as code, but that would need some extra annotation to get such a nice structured output. The bonus, however, if someone where to work on such an addition, would be that syntax highlighting will use the same engine and deal with incomplete/incorrect code consistently [1]: https://github.com/trishume/syntect
In Show HN: Sparser – A Multilanguage Parser

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