How about finally enabling syntax highlighting for RE.SE?

Question

I would like to once again put forward this old proposal. Let's activate syntax highlighting for RE.SE.

Currently it is not enabled.

• There are plenty of examples of Python code for helper scripts in answers, including Angr-related, IDAPython and Python-based GDB scripts
• There are pieces of various scripting languages, such as obfuscated and deobfuscated Javascript code
• Java would be useful for certain Ghidra-related Q&As (but it also has some Python integration as well)
• There are several questions which attempt to correlate C/C++ source code to disassembly
• There are plenty of questions and answers with pseudo code that could probably be syntax highlighted as C/C++
• IDC, the original IDA scripting language is close enough to C/C++ to benefit from syntax highlighting
• Tags for some of the above (and below): idapython, java, python, c++, javascript, c# and hexrays & decompilation (for C/C++ pseudo code)

Concrete examples

• Bash & Python: this answer
• Python: this Q&A, related to IDAPython
• Bash: this answer
• C/C++: this answer
• Bash: this answer
• C/C++: this answer (but also the question)
• C/C++: this question
• Python: this answer
• Python: this question
• Python: this question
• C/C++ & Python: this Q&A
• C/C++ pseudo code: this question
• C/C++ pseudo code: this question
• C/C++ with inline assembly: this question
• C/C++ pseudo code: this question
• Assembly: this question

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For the record, JNat wrote in a comment over here, quote:

Have a discussion on Meta; once a consensus is reached, create a separate post for the actual request (pointing to the discussion and consensus) and [status-review] it as per this post. A CM will then evaluate your request and discuss next steps depending on their assessment.

• Update 2023-02-21: put in the request now
• Update 2023-03-02: it is now enabled

Answer 1

Yes.

Is there anything that has to be done to enable it, or is it just decision based? Why it wasn't done already?

Answer 2

I enabled the following default languages for tags. This is mostly thought as a reference for now:

• c++ -> lang-cpp
• decompilation -> lang-c
• c -> lang-c
• idapython -> lang-py
• python -> lang-py
• java -> lang-java
• javascript -> lang-js
• c# -> lang-cs
• idapro-sdk -> lang-cpp (debatable, but C++ is the better choice compared to C here)
• gcc -> lang-cpp
• struct -> lang-c
• angr -> lang-py
• delphi -> lang-pascal (no better match seems to exist)
• lua -> lang-lua
• php -> lang-php
• mfc -> lang-cpp
• idc -> lang-cpp (up for debate, we could also try lang-c, but this would also cover auto)
• mssql -> lang-sql
• go -> lang-golang
• vba -> lang-vb
• pykd -> lang-py
• erlang -> lang-erlang