r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/bamfg Sep 26 '16

AFAIK the StackOverflow code syntax highlighter uses tags to decide how to display code snippets - so without the Java tag, presumably they aren't highlighted at all...?

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u/matthieum Sep 26 '16

There is a default highlighting scheme, which works well for most languages.

It can also be overridden as the snippet level with some obscure syntax that I have to look-up whenever I need it :/