Related: #3619 #3621 #3623

In trying to figure out the direction of the project moving forward, where we go, how we should or shouldn't integrate with other parsers (at the 1st party level), it'd be helpful to know WHY people prefer Highlight.js to Prism - or how they think about the differences. No detail is too large or too small. Or if you evaluated other highlighting solutions (than just these two), those thoughts would be welcome here also - provided you have a few points of comparison.

The parsing engines are of course very different. But I've never really thought about which is "better" in an absolute sense... I've just always assumed that a mono-culture is bad - and that it's good we have two great choices for highlighting on the client-side - and that people obviously have reasons for preferring one over the other.

Suddenly I'm much more curious about the WHY, and what those reasons are. Anyone care to share?

Lets keep this civil and respectful... it's ok to share perceived negatives, buts lets about things like "Highlight.js sucks because" or vise versa, etc...