User blog comment:Ducksoup/Visual Editor Gets an Update/@comment-13918697-20150329000235/@comment-452-20150331162025

"what's wrong " = A large number of things which I've listed elsewhere and I'm not going to repeat here.

The most important points are:
 * Professional IDEs don't have the bugs this one does.
 * Professional IDEs have options to customise the colours.


 * that since syntax highlighting is so much liked by coders using better tools

There's a big difference between the statement "syntax highlighting is the standard in any professional code editor" and "syntax highlighting is so much liked by coders using better tools" because real coders don't need syntax highlighting. (inb4 "no true scotsman")

My editor of choice has the option to turn it off completely for each file type, and the only part of the syntax highlighting that I rely on is my customised colouring for comments, so I know to ignore them.

To be clear, I still think adding Syntax Highlighting to Wikia is a great idea. It would be a much better feature without the bugs, with the ability to customise the colours, and the ability to turn it off completely.