· 4 days ago· Dev.to
Cloud Terminal Gets Syntax Highlighting Boost, But Is It Really Needed?
Spend a few hours in Claude Code and count what you actually read: tool output, reasoning traces, permission prompts, explanations. Maybe 20% is code. The rest is English at body size, continuous, for hours. Standard terminal themes are built around syntax highlighting — they're solving a different
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