Nix code Highlighting

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Just enabled the code highlighting for Nix source :slight_smile:

{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  name = "foo-${version}";
  version = "1.2.3";
  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://dl.foo.com/foo-${version}.tar.gz";
    sha256 = "...";
  };
}

PS: Discourse is using hightlight.js for the code highlighting.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-additional-languages-to-highlight-js-used-by-discourse/22925/5

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As a note, the syntax highlighting doesn’t appear in emails. Not sure if there is anything we can do about this from our end?

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Highlight.js leaves the syntax tokenizing to the JavaScript so nothing is happening server side. I don’t think that there is an easy fix for that.