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Enable syntax highlighting for D language

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According to this answer, Codidact uses highlight.js for syntax highlight, and "support whatever languages are enabled by default in that package".

And according to this table (in highlight.js GitHub), D language is enabled by default (no need for additional packages), but it also says that "our default minified web build includes only ~40 popular languages" (which means that maybe D is not included by default).

Anyway, in this answer I used some code blocks in D, like this:

```d
code
```

But they're not highlighted.

The other answers are not using the language hint (the "d" after the backticks), and in those cases, AFAIK, highlight.js tries to guess the language. For example, in this answer it's using TypeScript - you can see that by checking the code block in browser's dev tools:

Highlight.js guessed TypeScript


Therefore, if I use the language hint (```d), the code is not highlighted, and if I don't use any hint, it uses a different language (in my answer, when not using any hint, some blocks were set as Java, others as C++).

That said, is D syntax highlight enabled? How can I highlight D code in posts?

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I guess that needs to be configured server-side in the web application... (1 comment)

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