Two things to consider:
- When reading generated code, which programming language would be the most readable to you?
- Which programming language guides AI to write correct code using language features or guardrails?
It’s funny, when I was younger, it was all about MSN messenger, MySpace (esp the music player on there), and forums. That’s the old web I remember from before. No personal blogs, really. (Again I’m not old enough to remember before that)
If you've never seen anyone work with syntax highlighting off, there are some YouTube videos that inspired me to try coding with syntax highlighting off:
1. "Hacking with Andrew and Brad" - Andrew Gerrand (previously on the Go core team) uses Vim without syntax highlighting.[0]
2. "Advanced Embed With Go Generate - Andy Walker" -- this guy uses bold/italics/few colors in his editor. Interesting visual on how you can use font to show different aspects of the code.[1][2]
3. "Visual Studio Code, No Syntax Coloring, Go Fonts" [3]
4. "stb programming FAQ" - Sean Barrett answers why he uses VC6 and why his syntax highlighting is so minimal.[4]
Why do you hate autoindent? Have you seen issues with autoindent while developing? Vim `set autoindent` works well when configured with how you do tabs for a given language (ie `set sw=2 sts=2` for JavaScript)
I love coding with syntax highlighting off. The signal from linters or other code analyzers ends up jumping out more when other things aren't highlighted.
Acme is an interesting text editor for development. I've used it for React.js development before. Because of how you can script it, I could run Prettier on save and a few other things you'd normally expect in the JS world.
I like that there's a Sublime Text package for it. Seeing my plain text todos with nice syntax highlighting is a perk.
I maintain a Zenburn color scheme[0] for Sublime Text. After playing with this, I added specialized support for [x]it! and I think it looks pretty good[1].