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Show HN: Hl – syntax highlighting for the command line, powered by Atom (github.com/bcoe)
6 points by BenjaminCoe on Oct 26, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I honestly don't understand the purpose of re-inventing every existing shell tool using NodeJS. I'm certainly not against re-creating (as opposed to re-inventing) a better/more fit-for-purpose/whatever "wheel". But this is getting to be ridiculous - I'm convinced a large portion of them are created by people who somehow didn't manage to search for "<basic task> command line (linux|osx|whatever)".

To add to the confusion, it can hardly even claim to be a better solution.

This: 6 languages supported, who knows how many dependent NPM modules required, can't even handle basic stuff like checking if STDIN is a TTY or not. (seriously wtf "--pipe" ??)

Pygments: 230+ languages supported, has literally 1 requirement on Debian (python).




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