[ANN] Initial release of Glow, a tiny library for syntax highlighting Clojure source code

[W. David Jarvis]

Hey all - 

I'm very happy to announce yet another OSS project, Glow, which is intended to provide a minimal and simple way to enable you to produce syntax-highlighted strings of Clojure source code. 

The project page can be found here, and as usual I've written up a little blog post about it here. 

Some screenshots of what it looks like in use can be found below:

If you're curious why I did this, I'll happily refer you to this issue on the Ultra project page.

I'm actively soliciting pull requests to improve the library's regular expressions - they're tolerably acceptable for now, but I'm no regex expert and so a sharp eye would definitely be welcome. 

Hope everyone's having a good weekend otherwise.

Cheers,

 - V

[Reid McKenzie]

Very nice! Have you put any effort into an HTML output target?

Reid

[W. David Jarvis]

I thought about it early on but considered that a space that's largely already addressed by highlight.js et al. If there's another use case you had in mind for it that highlight et al. don't satisfy I'd be happy to look into it :)

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Reid McKenzie <rmcke...@gmail.com> wrote:

Very nice! Have you put any effort into an HTML output target?

Reid

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[Reid McKenzie]

On the contrary, I would argue that there is some interesting stuff
like locals highlighting that existing highlighting solutions don't or
can't offer. However as you say pygments fulfills my requirements.

Reid

[W. David Jarvis]

Unfortunately, since Glow doesn't use a lisp reader as it's underlying syntax engine, locals highlighting isn't something that the project can easily support. Allen Rohner pointed me in the direction of a few other underlying lisp/clojure readers that might open up avenues for that sort of feature, and I'd definitely be interested in exploring it, but barring outside contributions at the moment I think the project will probably stick with its regex implementation for the immediate future.

Even so - someone else also opened an issue on the project page asking for HTML output and it wouldn't be that hard to generalize the actual highlighting process to target multiple output types. I'll noodle on it some more.

Reid

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