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josephschmitt on March 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rainbow.js - code syntax highlighting in 1.2kb

No one says you should. It's an alternate implementation. I don't understand the "competition" angle, is there a paid version for both of these projects that is forcing people to choose one over the other?

piranha on March 27, 2012 [–]

I believe if you are making some new application solving problem which has existing solution you should at least provide some clues why it was done.

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