.dart files not syntax highlighted

[Jacob Drew]

None of the .dart files in my repositories are syntax highlighted even though they are when I copy and paste them here https://pygments.org/demo/. None of the files exceed 100 KB.

Could it be possible to add support for .dart files?

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jacob Drew and welcome to the community!

Based on what you wrote, I think that you came across the following KB article to troubleshoot this?

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/bbkb/troubleshoot-syntax-highlighting-issues-in-bitbucket-cloud-860029940.html

This is an old KB article and we are now using different libraries, I will look into updating the article. The source view and the diffs are not highlighted by pygments at the moment.

I reached out to the development team and we will look into updating the libraries we use to a newer version that supports syntax highlighting for .dart, but I don't have an ETA to share at the moment.

Kind regards,
Theodora

[Jacob Drew]

Great! Thank you!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Bitbucket's syntax highlighting has to be coded to recognise and interpret each language that files might be written in.

I've never heard of "dart", but I am old, and not really a coder (I moved from dev to environment management when Jira 2 came out), and I can equally complain that Bitbucket doesn't do highlighting for Brain****, Pro-IV, Piaget and BASIC, all of which are languages no-one in their right mind would use, and the one I used to be rather good at isn't the one you expect it to be.  Heck, we're still waiting for Pascal, and no-one writes in that any more, despite it being significantly better than C, BASIC, COBOL and Java.

I am not saying it is wrong to get the highlighting for dart.  I'm just saying that it is in a very very long queue.

[Jacob Drew]

Ok. Dart is the language for Google Flutter which is steadily on the rise and already being used by 2million+ developers. So I just hope dart is somewhere near the top of that queue.