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here's one for the og pierre heads

It’s 3d rendered - you can mess with it on our blog post pierre.computer/writing/on-h…

that's it??

sorry the tweet was inexact. it was meant to imply that the actual syntax is parsed rather than just regex matched, but it never makes it to the actual tree phase. the goal is that it’s accurate according to the real syntax rules rather than a close approximation with regex.

github.com/pierrecomputer/pi… go for it

generally plan to add more languages but dont have a specific burn down list yet. We’ll add it to the ideas.txt file!

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only works because @jexia_ did a lot of work first

we’re not going to ask you again to stop trying to sniff the software

we released the blogpost in chinese as well, by the way! pierre.computer/writing/on-h…

that’s our secret, we’re all playing pachinko

no *ur* interesting and useful

i think the eventual technique was not meaningfully slower due to solving for safari, so probably only small gains. cc @amadeus in case im wrong

you must have missed our first website launch with the epilepsy warning, but we’re glad you like it!

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We wrote up a blog post about all the hard work and hard tech that went into making Highlights. - Highlights uses actual language ASTs to highlight rather than regex - It is often hundreds of times faster than Shiki in language-to-language comparisons while also using much less memory - It supports over 70 languages - It's a drop-in replacement for Shiki when your environment supports wasm and simd pierre.computer/writing/on-h…

Today we're launching an exciting new project: Highlights Highlights is a syntax highlighter that outputs HTML. It improves on both speed and correctness compared to the existing industry standard libraries. It's an optional drop-in replacement in Diffs, and it's ready to use today. In fact, it's already powering diffshub․com! Check it out at diffs.com/highlights OR `pnpm install @​pierre/highlights`

damn, tru