Variance from Neovim version

[jasonsturges]

Variance from Neovim version

[sgoudham]

Hey 👋

The neovim version did come first but over the past year, @nekowinston and I took the core highlights from neovim and iterated on them to create the current editor style guide.

If you compare JetBrains and VSCode, you'll find that the highlights are a lot more similar, (of course, they can't be 1:1 since they use different parsers and have different restrictions on theming the UI) but we still have some work to do in the organisation to go back and update our older editors to conform to the new highlighting.

E.g. VSCode / JetBrains

I appreciate that many people really like Neovim's syntax highlighting but we found that it lacked coherence and consistency across multiple languages and hence defined a newer style guide. Note that this is still a work in progress and we need to document more of the similarities that you'll find between JetBrains/VSCode.

Although, I believe that the gradle.properties in JetBrains should actually have blue keys there 👀

All that to say, yes it is intentional and we actually need to update Neovim to be more in line with JetBrains, VSCode, etc.

[sgoudham]

In terms of the design aesthetic, you can view this storybook instance to understand the vibe that we're going for regarding syntax highlighting.

[jasonsturges]

@sgoudham Really appreciate these insights - thanks.