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The following table tries to give an overview from bats perspective, i.e. we only compare
categories which are relevant for bat. Some of these projects have completely different goals and
if you are not looking for a program like bat, this comparison might not be for you.
| bat | pygments | highlight | ccat | source-highlight | hicat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Drop-in cat replacement |
(✔️) * | ❌ | ❌ | (✔️) | ❌ | ❌ * |
| Git integration | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Automatic paging | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Languages (circa) | 60 | 300 | 200 | 7 | 80 | 130 |
| Extensible (languages, themes) | ✔️ | (✔️) | (✔️) | ❌ | (✔️) | ❌ |
| Advanced highlighting (e.g. nested syntaxes) | ✔️ | ✔️ | (✔️) ? | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Execution time [ms] (jquery-3.3.1.js) |
624 | 789 | 400 | 80 | 300 | 316 |
Execution time [ms] (miniz.c) |
66 | 656 | 26 | 8 | 53 | 141 |
| Execution time [ms] (370 kB XML file) | 238 | 487 | 129 | 111 | 110 | 339 |
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