To be fair, the article is over 5 years old. The author seemed to be unfamiliar ...

		jasonjmcghee 86 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information c... To be fair, the article is over 5 years old. The author seemed to be unfamiliar with tree-sitter (first appeared in 2018) and incorrectly assumed Atom used TextMate. Since then it's gotten much more popular and adopted by other editors.

Good catch, thanks!