find-syntax

An experiment to try and find the ideal syntax highlighter for an arbitrary snippet.

• Given a snippet of code, query the GitHub Markdown API to generate highlighted HTML.
• Determine the complexity and level of color in the generated HTML.
• Report and display the results, showing the "best" syntax highlighter for the snippet.

Goals

• Memory caching of API results to prevent unnecessary requests.
• Automatic rate limiting and threading optimizations with Tokio, Governor, and Reqwest.
• GitHub Token & User-Agent compliance.
• Heuristics for determining the "best" syntax highlighter for per-request efficiency and overall speed.

Future

• Provide a server with a nice user intreface for viewing the results using GitHub's syntax.
  • Light & Dark mode options.
  • OAuth login to allow users to view their own private repos.
• Ability to select parts of the text that should have no color + some color to fine-tune the results.