syntax highlighting Archives

6 Best Free and Open Source Syntax Highlighters

We explore specialised open source tools that offer syntax highlighting for a whole raft of programming languages.

highlight.js is a syntax highlighter written in JavaScript. It works in the browser as well as on the server

Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 200 different languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text.

Re-Highlight is a powerful syntax highlighter, which is a sub-module of the Reqable project.

Chroma takes source code and other structured text and converts it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI-coloured text, and more.

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications.

Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It’s used in millions of websites

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.