Pygments is described as 'Generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pygments for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac, Windows and Web-based apps. The best Pygments alternative is Pandoc, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pygments are Rich-CLI, prism.js, highlight.js and Lolight.
Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.
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.
Lolight is a 3kB tokenizer and syntax highlighter. No language specific syntax support, just a CSS stylable breakdown into tokens. Default styles included.
gnu source-highlight is a command line program that can be used to highlight source code, it supports output to many formats including html, ODF, ANSI and groff.
The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, 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.
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...
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