New syntax highlighter: PrismJS
Spanish version / Versión en Español Who would have thought that this blog would live long enough to see a third change of syntax highlighter? Incredibly enough, Blogger is also alive and kicking. This site's administration has decided to retire highlightjs , which seems to be still alive, but has lost ground to prismjs . Obviously, it's subjective, but personally I have decided to favor Prism due to the following reasons: It managed to handle VB.NET code blocks better. Yes, I know it's not the most modern language, but we still hold some affection for it. It looks better: it's more compact, with a better color selection. It also highlights more keywords, at least for the languages we use here. It offers an extensible architecture, including a plugin system which allows, for example, adding line numbers. HighlighJS has no such feature. All of these extra features, and still Prism has a very small footprint. Without fu...