Syntax highlighting for Arturo

[BNAndras]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
At the moment, there’s no syntax highlighting specifically for Arturo. The syntax highlighting in the repo readme uses the grammar definition for red. At the moment this is fine, but I imagine the two languages might drift over time so an Arturo-specific grammar can be tweaked more closely to the language.

Describe alternatives you've considered
We could just keep the red grammar rule.

[drkameleon]

You absolutely have a point.

As a matter of fact, all things taken into account (attributes, quantities, etc), the two languages (or better said the 3 of them) have already drifted apart.

Now, trust me I'd love that. And I have absolutely "studied" the issue.

In a few words:

if we are talking about highlighting in general, we have the VSCode extension, the awesome Pygments plugin by @RickBarretto, the Prism extension, even one for Ace Editor. So, we're definitely not short of highlighters lol (but I guess you know that).

Now, for that to work in GitHub, "all" we have to do is make a PR at: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist (actually it's the official language recognizer by GitHub itself)

I say "all" but in fact this can be very challenging. Why? Because there have some very, very strict criteria about which languages they accept: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-an-extension-to-a-language

But... ⚠️ apparently, I'm seeing that perhaps they have relaxed their prerequisites as of lately (?!): github-linguist/linguist#5756

So... after all, perhaps it's time we good attempt something wild and finally submit arturo for some official highlighting support? Hmm.... 🤔

That's some idea!!

[BNAndras]

Thanks for the information. In particular, I was thinking about highlightjs support since Discord uses that library. Adding an Arturo grammar there could be of use in highlighting code snippets for the Arturo Discord channel down the road.

[drkameleon]

Good idea, but... have a look:

highlightjs/highlight.js#3196

(You can obviously use all the work that I had done there and make something more interesting. I honestly don't remember much, but feel free to shoot me with any idea! 😉 )

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