Why did the style of syntax highlighting change?

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Hi
I just wanted to know if the new syntax highlighting in code blocks is part of the accidental settings changes or if it was done intentionally.

fn main() {
    let x: String = "hello".to_owned();
    let y: i32 = 12_i32;
}
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Can you elaborate on what changed for you?
I cannot recall any difference.

  • fn blue
  • main orange
  • let blue
  • x and y green
  • String and i32 green
  • "hello" green
  • to_owned orange
  • 12_i32 white
3

I think there was no syntax highlighting at all before.

4

I believe the change might be related to

That merge is 10h ago, but yes, it looks like the site updates do go live that quickly.

It looks like you can find the current discourse version near the top of the html:

view-source:https://users.rust-lang.org/

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-GB" class="desktop-view not-mobile-device text-size-normal">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>The Rust Programming Language Forum</title>
    <meta name="description" content="General discussion of The Rust Programming Language">
    <meta name="discourse_theme_id" content="36">
    <meta name="discourse_current_homepage" content="latest">

    <meta name="generator" content="Discourse 3.4.0.beta3-dev - https://github.com/discourse/discourse version 429cf656e78ae1858c29a446cccd386542ae2867">
    ⋮

which contains a commit hash whose history you can see here

As it applies equally to internals, and I haven’t noticed a difference before today either, it’s definitely unrelated to the accidental settings changes from the last few weeks.

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No sorry, I cannot recall. I just look at it and think, that looks different than the last 300 hours I spent here.

Maybe one thing I think might be different: I think string literals used to be a different color to everything else.

And the background was lighter than the new one.

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I couldn't tell you what changed, but something does feel different.

But at least on dark mode I like how it is now, so no complaints from me :upside_down_face:

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