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Show HN: Hl – syntax highlighting for the command line, powered by Atom

6 pointsby BenjaminCoeover 9 years ago

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stephenrover 9 years ago
I honestly don&#x27;t understand the purpose of re-inventing every existing shell tool using NodeJS. I&#x27;m certainly <i>not</i> against re-creating (as opposed to re-inventing) a better&#x2F;more fit-for-purpose&#x2F;whatever &quot;wheel&quot;. But this is getting to be ridiculous - I&#x27;m convinced a large portion of them are created by people who somehow didn&#x27;t manage to search for &quot;&lt;basic task&gt; command line (linux|osx|whatever)&quot;.<p>To add to the confusion, it can hardly even claim to be a <i>better</i> solution.<p>This: 6 languages supported, who knows how many dependent NPM modules required, can&#x27;t even handle basic stuff like checking if STDIN is a TTY or not. (seriously wtf &quot;--pipe&quot; ??)<p>Pygments: 230+ languages supported, has literally 1 requirement on Debian (python).