Get StackOverflow to default to Rust syntax highlighting questions tagged [rust]

[huonw]

Currently, code in [rust] questions needs to have an explicit <!-- language: lang-rust --> comment before it in the markdown to have pretty colours (see "Syntax highlighting for code"). Other established language tags automatically imply using that highlighting, it would be nice to work out how to get SO to handle this for Rust.

Example. The old impl block is plain, the new one is coloured.

(It might just be opening a question on meta.stackoverflow.com, not sure; I don't have time to investigate now.)

[zslayton]

After digging around a bit, it appears that Kevin Ballard has already opened a feature request to this effect. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have received too much attention. Stack Exchange is suffering a network outage at the moment, but once they're back up I'll post a link to this on /r/rust to see if I can drum up some support for it.

[steveklabnik]

I upvoted it.

[huonw]

Seems to be done! Yay!

[steveklabnik]

Yup, i got a tweet about it. 🤘

[zslayton]

Woo! That's some good tweeting there, Steve.