User blog comment:Kirkburn/Syntax highlighting - helping you read and write code/@comment-4783583-20150327100648/@comment-4189499-20150402112926

I don't agree with the idea that syntax highlighting is an insult to those who can already code as some seem to be implying. Indeed, I think it's a great tool for catching bugs in CSS and JS editors caused by silly things like not closing quotes in strings. While I haven't been coding for very long, I always like to code in an editor with syntax highlighting because it makes it just that much less likely to botch your code with simple mistakes, and also gives you a better idea of what's going on as you scan down a longer page of code to get to the part you need to edit. I think it's a bit unnecessary to have highlighting on wikitext due to its relative simplicity, but it will be beneficial in the quest to convince more people to try the source editor, and we can choose to disable that ourselves. So, mostly pros from me. If you really can't stand syntax highlighting on CSS and JS pages, just copy the parts you need into notepad and edit it there. But you'll probably grow to like it in time, or at least will learn to ignore it.