These formats are used by Atom, VS Code and TextMate, and many high-quality grammars are written in these flavours (though I recall reading that Sublime supports these formats too).
Rationale: I've written hundreds of TextMate-compatible grammars, but they're all in CSON format. Most of them were written for use on GitHub. I'd kill to see my highlighting work faithfully reproduced by my terminal.
These formats are used by Atom, VS Code and TextMate, and many high-quality grammars are written in these flavours (though I recall reading that Sublime supports these formats too).
Rationale: I've written hundreds of TextMate-compatible grammars, but they're all in CSON format. Most of them were written for use on GitHub. I'd kill to see my highlighting work faithfully reproduced by my terminal.