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Because it just turns into rainbow noise.

What editors like VSCode do instead is to highlight the matching parenthesis when the cursor is over the other. That way you don't have to hunt for a matching color.

And to make any unmatched opening/closing parenthesis bright red. The invalid state is made very clear.

Together, these are much more effective.



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