<story><title>GitHub dropped Pygments</title><url>http://www.greghendershott.com/2014/11/github-dropped-pygments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhinavg</author><text>I honestly don&amp;#x27;t see a problem here. They decided to change a backend library for a non-essential system in their product. Most services don&amp;#x27;t ask for permission or make announcements when they make changes like this.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The approach seemed to be, if things break, people will report it and we’ll fix it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;While this may not be the best approach, the number of languages supported is too high for a person to check each one manually. Generally, I imagine they wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect a change like this to break anything significant.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[people] use it as a portfolio. [..] To suddenly doink the appearance of people’s portfolios is unfortunate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is very unlikely that syntax highlighting errors in GitHub will affect someone&amp;#x27;s chances of getting a job.&lt;p&gt;Sure, this switch could cause some issues but they don&amp;#x27;t seem to be severe enough to kick up a fuss over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Argorak</author><text>I beg to differ. Github pushes its code rendering as far as possible, including providing widgets to embed code snippets into you blog. It is also the _main content they display all the time_. That&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;non-essential&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Just switching the library and breaking things at a whim is problematic.&lt;p&gt;Also, the number of languages may be 316 (including some oddballs like &amp;quot;Unified Parallel C&amp;quot;) but that&amp;#x27;s still a possible number to check for at least for major, obvious breakages. Still, for people that do use Unified Parallel C, adequate highlighting might just be the reason to choose that platform and use it to write your blog in, instead of writing a custom highlighter for prism.js.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, if you business is code and you decide to support 316 languages, expect people to hold you on that promise.&lt;p&gt;That said, also: errors happen. But that isn&amp;#x27;t a reason to give them a pass, just not to put too much weight on such things. It doesn&amp;#x27;t break the platform at large, but terribly inconveniences some users, and they are very right in being upset, too.</text></comment>
<story><title>GitHub dropped Pygments</title><url>http://www.greghendershott.com/2014/11/github-dropped-pygments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhinavg</author><text>I honestly don&amp;#x27;t see a problem here. They decided to change a backend library for a non-essential system in their product. Most services don&amp;#x27;t ask for permission or make announcements when they make changes like this.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The approach seemed to be, if things break, people will report it and we’ll fix it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;While this may not be the best approach, the number of languages supported is too high for a person to check each one manually. Generally, I imagine they wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect a change like this to break anything significant.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[people] use it as a portfolio. [..] To suddenly doink the appearance of people’s portfolios is unfortunate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is very unlikely that syntax highlighting errors in GitHub will affect someone&amp;#x27;s chances of getting a job.&lt;p&gt;Sure, this switch could cause some issues but they don&amp;#x27;t seem to be severe enough to kick up a fuss over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conradev</author><text>One other thing to note is that it&amp;#x27;s not just syntax highlighting, it&amp;#x27;s also recognizing the language a given repository is written in.&lt;p&gt;Some of my repositories that use Logos[1] are now incorrectly classified as a combination of Ruby and Scala[2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Logos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iphonedevwiki.net&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;Logos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/conradev/Tweaks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;conradev&amp;#x2F;Tweaks&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>