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12:30 dreamreal tornadovm hit 4.0.0
12:30 dreamreal any tornado users?
14:20 Chronos cheeser: He writes interesting blog articles
14:20 Chronos I don't always agree with him, but they're almost always interesting
14:20 cheeser yeah
17:35 Bombe Hmm, there doesn’t seem to be a maintained syntax highlighting library for Java. That makes me sad.
17:41 Bombe Not sure I understand. I have a String, I want some representation that allows e.g. colouring. Could be an AST, could be Markdown, could be HTML.
17:42 Bombe That would be an acceptable outcome, yes.
17:45 Bombe Maybe my search engine skills have turned to shit, but the only thing I can find is commonmark, which doesn’t do syntax highlighting, and blogposts that list a number of syntax highlighting projects which support ~5 languagues and are unmaintained.
17:49 Bombe The fuck, do I have to explain the difference between Java and JavaScript to you? :D
17:50 Bombe String -> (something)? -> HTML is pretty much exactly what I want to do.
17:51 Bombe Client-side is no good, though, I need it in Java.
17:51 Bombe Well, on the JVM, to be more precise, don’t care what it’s in exactly, unless it requires gigantic runtimes or is Scala. :)
17:53 Bombe I’m getting a String, I want to apply syntax highlighting, and I want to store the resulting HTML.
18:09 ernimril Bombe, so what parts do you want help with? The tokenizer? the parser? the highlighter? the output handling?
18:14 ernimril Bombe, depending on what you want, this can maybe be useful for a few of the above: https://github.com/bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea
18:14 nevet GitHub - bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea: A syntax highlighting, code folding text editor for Java Swing applications.
18:14 javabot ernimril's title: "GitHub - bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea: A syntax highlighting, code folding text editor for Java Swing applications. · GitHub"
18:44 cheeser https://github.com/codelibs/jhighlight ? updated last week.
18:44 nevet GitHub - codelibs/jhighlight: JHighlight is an embeddable pure Java syntax highlighting library.
18:44 javabot cheeser's title: "GitHub - codelibs/jhighlight: JHighlight is an embeddable pure Java syntax highlighting library. · GitHub"
19:34 Bombe ernimri, what I would love is a library to take care of all of that for me. :D
19:35 dreamreal considering the specificity of the requirement, that'd be a high expectation :D
19:37 Bombe I’m not sure what is so incredibly hard to understand: I have a String, and I want a String.
19:39 Bombe The final result will be stored; at some point in the future it will be sanitized and displayed in a browser, but that’s completely irrelevant because out of scope.
19:40 dreamreal so you want a string, that presumably represents valid java source, to be highlighted in... html using... styles? no css?
19:40 dreamreal no, like, external css
19:42 dreamreal why not, in that case, start with a keyword search/replace: s/package/<span style="color:red">package</span>/
19:43 dreamreal otherwise you're looking at generating an AST and using that to spit out bits based on token purpose
19:43 dreamreal which is not particularly complicated, I suppose
19:44 Bombe Yes, I know how (in theory) to do that manually, and if everything else is shit, I will probably do that.
19:45 Bombe Still, I would love to not do that myself. :)