Syntax highlighting discussion

[pepelsbey]

Right now we’re highlighting Dev.Opera code using Highlight.js. There’s an idea to switch to highlighter marking up code during build process using Pygments.

One thing I noticed when switching from pygments to highlight.js is the significant improvement in processing the blog. When running jekyll, what used to take half a minute to a minute now takes a couple of seconds to run. It looks like pygments is the bottleneck.

Switching from pygments to highlight.js

Completely unfair comparison of Javascript syntax highlighters

[andreasbovens]

My feeling is that we should stick to highlight.js — it makes sense to do this in JS in my opinion, rather than overloading the build process with yet another step.

[mathiasbynens]

Alright!