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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • I’m of that minority. I don’t like looking at Skittles all day so I never turned it on way back when. When I see it it’s uncomfortable. But I’ve been so comfortable reading code, I don’t think I’ve felt like I’m missing something by not having syntax highlighting.

    The only time it’s ever useful is on the missing braces and the such, but I’ve built so many habits that I don’t run into that often and when I do I have very simple ways of getting around it. 🤷

  • His rationale is that on a stock install, it removes entries, and that it might break some things. But he doesn’t show much more than stuff being removed. He doesn’t reason that windows may or may not clean them up itself, or explain which programs are crashing. It’s a 6 minute video you can probably Skip. There may be better videos with more evidence out there.