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>>1084495 (OP)

It's great because it helps me see when I fucked up closing some bracket or ending a string.

>While this was worked great for small files

It works great for large files too. That is until the highlighting becomes slow.

Then you should consider whether it really all needs to be in one file.

>I got colorful rainbow puke and my eyes can't focus on text, only on colors.

Is this supposed to be some cheap attempt at shilling your article? There is absolutely no problem at all.

>there is no useful tutorials on how to efficiently navigate code with it?

You navigate code by reading it.

>This doesn't make any sense.

Printing colour is expensive and highlighted code on the web

it has to be produced with some extra tool because the browser doesn't know anything about highlighting code.

However I found lots of tutorials on the internet with highlighted code.

>I mean almost every beginner language tutorial be it on the web or in the book comes with two colors: black on white or in reverse.

You must be on some other internet than me.

>>1084495 (OP)

anon, it is supposed to help you notice whether your code has the correct syntax or not. it can also help you if you can remember what colors indicate what, in the source code editor/text editor you are using. for example, does a statement within quotes become highlighted grey? if so, this gives you the indication whether everything that you wanted to be within those quotes is in the quotes or not, or if you accidentally put too many quotes, or if you accidentally ended the quote when you actually meant to place a quote within a quote (like, an escaped quote).

i will use python as an example:

print("Hello!")

in notepad++, the print function is purple. Hello! is grey AFTER you complete the quotations. the parentheses are blue UNTIL you complete them, which make them red (but when you do anything after putting the last parentheses, those parentheses become blue again.)