Thoughts
All I want is a text editor with syntax highlighting for every language.
And VS Code has that. And vim has that (and neovim by virtue of compatibility). But that's it. (Okay I imagine emacs has to as well, right?)
Vim Polyglot is freaking amazing. It just has syntax highlighting for 600 common languages. I install it once, and in 5 years of opening files the only things it hasn't been able to syntax highlight are IBM RPG and Gemtext. (And it's easy to find Vim syntax highlighting packages for both of those.)
=> https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot Vim Polyglot
I just don't understand why that isn't priority number 1 for people making text editors.
Anyways this Thought was inspired by BBEdit bragging about supporting "over two dozen built-in languages."