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I've hacked together a black-and-white syntax highlighter for difftastic. Here's it running on a historical commit, showing keyword and comment highlighting.

prism.el is an excellent highlighter that uses nesting depth: https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el It has some really compelling screenshots (e.g. it makes the funcall more obvious here) and even works for non-lisps!

Building a syntax highlighter in Pharo Smalltalk! https://medium.com/@juliendelplanque/hacking-a-simple-syntactic-highlighter-around-specs-textmodel-44ba2e2b1ab9 I'm surprised no-one's built a text editor in Smalltalk yet: it seems like a great platform for an Emacs-style blob of functionality.