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When comparing Pygments vs Rainbow, the Slant community recommends Rainbow for most people. In the question“What are the best syntax highlighters?” Rainbow is ranked 1st while Pygments is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Rainbow is:
Distributed under the MIT License.
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2DYes
3DNo
Desktop targetsLinux; macOS; Windows
Dev platformsLinux; macOS; Windows
LanguagesC++; C#; Lua
LicenseMIT
Mobile targetsAndroid; iOS
Scripting languageC++; C#; Lua
Supported languagesC++; C#; Lua
Traditional codeC++; C#; Lua
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Pros
Pro Supports multiple output formats
Supports many different output formats including HTML, LaTeX, and ANSI sequences.
Pro Supports a large number of programming languages
Pygments provides syntax highlighting for over 300 programming languages.
Pro Open source
Distributed under the MIT License.
Pro Written in modern C++, is scriptable in Lua
Pro Cross-platform
With support for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Pro Optional FMOD audio engine
Pro Supports Spine
Pro Physics
Box2D integrated with Lua bindings.
Cons
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Con Not as feature-rich as other engines
Con Small community
Being fairly new on the scene, there aren't much of a community to speak of.