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Why do so few CLI tools use colour inside their error messages? For example, rustc uses colour well in the error display, but there's no special styling of the content in backticks. By contrast, markdown website almost always style backtick text differently from prose. E.g. `field` is not specially styled here.

It's funny how markdown has won in so many tools for prose, but doc comments syntax is so varied. Rust and Julia are largely markdown, Python is ReST plus doctest syntax, and Java even an HTML dialect!

Another Aphyr coding interview post, blending amazing programming with superb prose. (And this time, she is recommended to hire!)