A while ago I reported on switching this blog to a custom software named Marcus. Despite its source code being available in the open I didn't intend developing it into a full-blown project for two reasons: a) maintaining it would have taken much more time than I could afford and ...
Fresh from the oven, highlight.js now has a pretty cool feature that, to the best of my knowledge, is not supported by any other syntax highlighter. Namely, we can now recognize and highlight HTTP request headers and its body if it happens to be code in a language we know. ...
I want to draw your attention to an interesting offer made by Adam Kennedy from Kaggle to sponsor the development of syntax highlighting for the R language: highlight.js came to our attention with the addition of MATLAB support, as it is one of the two dominant languages used by our ...
There was a small spike in my referrers stats that led me to a new JavaScript highlighting library — rainbow.js. And since I love bashing other highlighters I couldn't resist this time too :-). Oh, but be sure that all of this is intended of course as a constructive criticism ...
During the time before latest release of highlight.js 6.0 I decided — for the first time in more than 4 years — to actually look at other highlighting libraries. Sure I knew of their existence before but nonetheless never felt compelled to do any serious comparison because highlight.js is a ...
Trying to fight procrastination I've got myself busy with a long delayed task — refactoring language definition in highlight.js to a new syntax. This turned out so well that I've also managed to resolve other tasks that were planned for version 6.0. So without further ado I'm hereby introducing a ...
Though the code of highlight.js was always open the library was never a real project. There wasn't a place for development discussions, no documentation wiki and no bug tracker. Instead I was just accepting new languages and patches and answered occasional question by mail. Nonetheless the highlighter has somehow managed ...
From now on highlight.js is hosted at Yandex and can be linked directly at yandex.st instead of downloading. This package however doesn't contain all the languages since it would become embarrassingly big otherwise. So I looked at the top downloaded languages and selected those of them so the final package ...
It's better late than never. Last night I finally released the next version of highlight.js contaning many nice additions, some of which were ready and waiting for as long as half a year. New languages Andrew Fedorov made a definition for Lua a long-time highlight.js contributor Peter Leonov made a ...