isagalaev

Agreed. My most popular github repo is a JavaScript library, while professionally I'm mostly manager and my technical background is mostly in Python.

This is basically what highlight.js does indeed :-)

Correction: highlight.js is 6 years old :-). And yes, I'm going to look into Rainbow more properly for useful ideas. And I encourage Craig to do the same. Isn't Open Source awesome? :-)

More on that: http://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2012/03/26/rainbow-js/en/

You shouldn't. There are just too many errors in highlighting.

Highlight.js does support Perl, does mark up q{...} as strings and has no problem with quoting in Lisp. I'm not sure about Haskell thing you mention because Haskell is a new contribution. But I'm sure it's fixable if it doesn't do the right thing.

You're probably talking about a hoard of simplistic regexp parsers. Highlight.js is not one of them, it's a proper context-aware parser.