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How to Make Code Highlighting-Friendly

calendar_today May 7, 2026 person Pavel Fatin domain jetbrains

This article introduces the notion of highlighting complexity and provides recipes for making your code highlighting-friendly, resulting in faster, more efficient highlighting. Code style is not just for style – it impacts the physical world! The benefits of highlighting-friendly code include: Better responsiveness Optimized CPU usage Efficient memory usage Cooler system temperatures Quieter operation Longer battery life While monads are burritos, you shouldn’t be frying eggs on your laptop! Consider highlighting complexity Imagine you’ve written this function to compute Fibonacci numbers…

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