Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted


CodeRay is described as 'Fast and easy syntax highlighting for selected languages, written in Ruby' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to CodeRay for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Ruby, JavaScript and Go (Programming Language) apps. The best CodeRay alternative is prism.js, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CodeRay are highlight.js, Bright, Rainbow (Syntax Highlighting) and Inkjet (Syntax Highlighting).
Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind.


Highlight.js is a client-side Syntax Highlighting library in Javascript.It can be used in Pastebin Services or in Code Examples.Because of running on client side,it needs less bandwidth than server-side Syntax Highlighting libraries.




A batteries-included syntax highlighting library for Rust, based on tree-sitter.
This package is an open source version of GitHub’s closed-source PrettyLights project (more on that later). It supports 600+ grammars and its extremely high quality. It uses TextMate grammars which are also used in popular editors (SublimeText, Atom, VS Code, &c).

Torchlight is a VS Code-compatible syntax highlighter that requires no JavaScript, supports every language, every VS Code theme, line highlighting, git diffing, and more.



Re-Highlight is a powerful syntax highlighter, which is a sub-module of the Reqable project. Re-Highlight can highlight a text by simply defining a syntax file. And Re-Highlight has built-in syntax highlighting rules for dozens of programming languages, it is easy to make your...

Chroma takes source code and other structured text and converts it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI-coloured text, etc.
Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 200 different languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text. Its HTML output is compatible with stylesheets designed for Pygments.
