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Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code? (lemmy.world)
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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML

That's all we had back in the day. The only difference that jumps out to me is having attributes, but that's still not that crazy. Even back when I did web stuff, I used notepad++ without any particular higlighting the vast majority of the time for plain HTML (though not JS).