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Swift and PowerShell fences currently fall back to plaintext. Add isolated swift and powershell definitions (with pwsh and ps1 aliases), default registration, and selective public imports.

Swift handles nested comments, raw/multiline strings with nested interpolation protection, extended regex delimiters, attributes, actor/concurrency keywords, common types, and numeric bases. PowerShell handles quoted/here-strings, nested subexpressions, scoped/braced/splat variables, case-insensitive keywords and word operators, cmdlets, parameters, type literals, and numeric suffixes. Both preserve exact source text.

Add an actor-based observatory and advanced report pipeline as representative fixtures, documentation examples, benchmark inputs, and the first two samples in the existing Shiki comparison demo. Include a minor changeset and document the lightweight scope.

Validation:

  • pnpm run verify: passed on Node 26.10.0, including 124 tests, 34 documentation pages, five skills, package/packed runtime checks, 14 isolated public import bundles, 19 size profiles, and 12 benchmark profiles.
  • pnpm run changeset:status: compatible minor release; git diff --check: passed.
  • Independent read-only review: reported lexical issues fixed with regression coverage; final review clean.
  • swiftc -frontend -parse test/showcases/Observatory.swift: passed. Full Swift typecheck is unavailable with the local SDK/toolchain mismatch; PowerShell runtime is not installed.
  • Browser checked the existing generated comparison demo at 1440px and 390px, including light/dark toggling, source text, token classes, no page overflow, and no browser console/page errors. Real local screenshots captured for both languages; reproduce with pnpm run report:compare.

Size tradeoff: Swift plus core is 3.36 KB gzip; PowerShell plus core is 3.27 KB. The all-language convenience entry grows from 10.77 KB to 12.43 KB gzip, and its explicit budget rises to 12.7 KB. Existing selective budgets remain unchanged.

Limits: interpolation is one string token; bare Swift regex literals, arbitrary custom operators, symbol resolution, and full PowerShell command/argument disambiguation are outside scope. Example API endpoints are placeholders. The existing comparison's Shiki reference remains light under its theme toggle; TanStack's showcased theme switches correctly.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added syntax highlighting for Swift and PowerShell, including the PowerShell aliases pwsh and ps1.
  • Documentation
    • Added a guide with examples and details on language support and highlighting limitations.
    • Updated supported-language counts and bundle-size measurements to reflect 32 languages.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for Swift and PowerShell syntax highlighting and Markdown code fences.

Rendered screenshot artifacts

Real browser captures of pnpm run report:compare, using the committed showcase sources and the existing demo CSS. Desktop is 1440px wide; mobile is 390px. The left panel is TanStack Highlight, the right panel is Shiki. TanStack switches between GitHub Light and Aurora X; the existing Shiki reference remains light under the demo toggle. The six original PNGs are stored under docs/assets/swift-powershell/ and excluded from the published package.

Swift's concurrency keywords, attributes, numeric literals, nested comments, and raw delimiters get distinct semantic colors. PowerShell's scoped variables, cmdlets, parameters, and here-string bodies stay visually distinct. Mobile stacks the comparison panels and scrolls long code lines within the block, without page overflow.

Aurora X

Swift PowerShell
Swift dark screenshot PowerShell dark screenshot
GitHub Light screenshots
Swift PowerShell
Swift light screenshot PowerShell light screenshot
Mobile screenshots (Swift light / PowerShell dark)
Swift PowerShell
Swift mobile screenshot PowerShell mobile screenshot

Minimal language and CSS setup

The themes generate CSS variables and .th-* token selectors; the host app controls layout. This uses the same language/theme APIs as the captured demo:

import { createHighlighter } from '@tanstack/highlight/core'
import { swift } from '@tanstack/highlight/languages/swift'
import { powershell } from '@tanstack/highlight/languages/powershell'
import { createThemeCss } from '@tanstack/highlight/theme'
import { githubLightTheme } from '@tanstack/highlight/themes/github-light'
import { auroraXTheme } from '@tanstack/highlight/themes/aurora-x'

const highlighter = createHighlighter({ languages: [swift, powershell] })
const style = document.createElement('style')
style.textContent = createThemeCss({ light: githubLightTheme, dark: auroraXTheme })
document.head.append(style)

const preview = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>('#preview')!
preview.innerHTML = highlighter.highlight('actor Cache {}', { lang: 'swift' }).html
  + highlighter.highlight('Get-Item $HOME', { lang: 'pwsh' }).html
// The default dark selector is .dark; CSS changes, markup stays the same.
document.documentElement.classList.toggle('dark')
pre.th-code { margin: 0; border-radius: 12px; }
pre.th-code code {
  font: 14px/1.6 ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Consolas, monospace;
}

Screenshot-only follow-up: the six assets match the captured bytes exactly; documentation verification and package-exclusion verification passed. Full implementation verification above was run at 90acf0f; implementation files are unchanged in the screenshot commit.

CI is blocked at GitHub's fork approval gate: the workflow explicitly says it is awaiting approval from a maintainer. A TanStack/highlight maintainer with write access must review and approve workflows for this PR before verify and the dependent Node runtime matrix can run. No approval, permission change, or rerun was attempted.

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The pull request adds Swift and PowerShell syntax highlighting, registers both languages, and adds showcase sources, tests, benchmarks, bundle-size profiles, and documentation.

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Swift and PowerShell support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tokenizers and showcase sources
src/languages/swift.ts, src/languages/powershell.ts, test/showcases/*
Adds language tokenizers and showcase sources. Swift scanning handles nested comments, raw strings, regexes, and interpolation. PowerShell scanning handles comments, here-strings, variables, and nested quoted expressions.
Package registration and integration coverage
src/index.ts, src/languages/index.ts, test/fixtures.ts, test/swift-powershell.test.ts, test/real-doc-fixtures.test.ts, scripts/test-package.mjs
Exports and registers both languages. Adds fixtures and tests for token classes, aliases, Markdown fences, and isolated package imports.
Documentation and size tooling
.changeset/*, README.md, docs/*, scripts/bench.mjs, scripts/generate-visual-compare.mjs, scripts/measure-size.mjs
Documents the languages and their syntax coverage. Adds benchmark, visual comparison, and size profiles, and updates aggregate size figures and budgets.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7b7bb

No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. The new test has substantial margin below its timeout, and long code lines remain accessible on narrow screens.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1317f

Swift highlighting introduces quadratic scanning for long sequences of hash characters. Applications that highlight untrusted source or Markdown could suffer synchronous CPU exhaustion. HTML escaping and language-instance isolation remain intact, but deployment-level input limits and affected consumers are unknown.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: The new Swift scanner repeatedly rescans rejected hash prefixes, producing quadratic work on hash-only input. Default Swift registration and Markdown fence delegation make this synchronous CPU amplification reachable from caller-controlled source. Availability impact depends on consumers accepting untrusted content without adequate limits.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported availability exposure is the process or worker synchronously highlighting attacker-controlled Swift source or Markdown containing a Swift fence. No privileged access is required beyond the ability to submit such content. Downstream services, tenants, and deployment limits are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An attacker supplies a long hash-only sequence as Swift source, directly or within a Swift Markdown fence. Each scanner position revisits the remaining hash suffix, amplifying input length into quadratic CPU work. This can impair availability where untrusted highlighting shares an execution thread with other work; deployed exploitability and timing have not been measured.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new definitions return token ranges rather than executable code or raw HTML. The unchanged shared renderer escapes token text, class values, language attributes, and data values. These controls preserve the source-to-markup boundary but do not address CPU amplification.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Unterminated lexical constructs terminate at input end, nested interpolation is depth-limited, and core normalizes token ranges. These checks contain malformed ranges and recursive stack growth, but the Swift hash-prefix rescan remains outside those protections.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consume or otherwise recognize rejected raw-delimiter prefixes without rescanning every suffix. For untrusted-content integrations, explicit source-size and execution-budget limits would provide additional availability containment; those controls are not established by the inspected evidence.
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Review comments at @docs/guides/performance.md:
- Line 21: Update the CI size figures in the performance guide paragraph to
match the table’s current 12.43 KB gzip measurement and 12.7 KB budget, or
clearly mark the 10,838-byte and 10,900-byte figures as historical.

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Followed up on the three review findings in 7b7bb56:

  • Swift now skips rejected hash runs in one step, including inside interpolation, without emitting spurious string tokens. Added coverage for 100,000 hashes and valid raw string/regex delimiters.
  • Removed the unused PowerShell Limit parameter from the showcase and guide; the example's final pipeline retains Select-Object -First 5. Added a check that the documented example matches its canonical source.
  • Refreshed bundle figures from the final measurement: all languages are 12,449 gzip bytes against the unchanged 12,700-byte budget.

Local Node 26.10.0 validation passed: pnpm run verify (127 tests, documentation/skills, package and packed-runtime checks, all 19 size profiles, and benchmarks), pnpm run changeset:status, and git diff --check.

CI run #61 is action_required, awaiting maintainer workflow approval; CI verification and the runtime matrix have not run. Could a maintainer review and approve the fork workflow so those checks can execute?

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Thanks for this. I have been adding a batch of other languages in #27 (Java, Kotlin, Rust, Ruby, C#, Dart, Lua, Perl) and left Swift out because this PR already covers it. To make sure the two fit together I ran the same checks I used there on this branch, with Claude's help: realistic docs-style samples for both languages, roughly 60k-character repeated-delimiter inputs for timing, and pnpm run verify.

The scanners held up on every nested string, raw string, and nested comment case I tried. The inline suggestions are the handful of things that came out of it. With all six applied, pnpm run verify still passes including the 127 existing tests, both languages stay under 20 ms on the timing inputs, and each language bundle gets about 15 gzip bytes smaller. Each comment carries an optional regression test that fails without its suggestion.

A few non-code things I noticed while comparing with how earlier languages were added (#17, #18):

  • scripts/language-utils.mjs (supportedLanguages and the pwsh / ps1 aliases), skills/configure-selective-highlighting/references/languages.md (this one ships in the npm package), docs/reference/default-entry.md ("30 canonical language names"), and docs/installation.md ("roughly 11 KB gzip") do not mention the new languages yet. verify does not catch these.
  • docs/guides/performance.md re-measures the TSX, Octane, Docs, and theme-helper figures and rewrites the note about CI compression. Those profiles are not affected by this change, so the differences look like local Node/zlib variation; leaving the existing figures might make the diff easier to review.
  • The six screenshots under docs/assets/swift-powershell/ (about 1.3 MB) are not referenced from any docs page, only from the PR description. That is the maintainers' call; I am only flagging it because docs/ has no binary assets today.

#27 and this PR edit the same shared lists and size numbers (README, the performance and test-strategy docs, scripts/measure-size.mjs, test/real-doc-fixtures.test.ts). If this lands first I will rebase #27 onto it.

Comment thread src/languages/swift.ts
name: 'swift',
tokenize: patternTokenizer([
{ collect: collectSwiftLexicalRanges },
{ className: 'meta', regex: /#(?:if|elseif|else|endif|available|unavailable|selector|keyPath|sourceLocation|warning|error|fileID|filePath|file|line|column|function)\b/g },

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Freestanding macros such as #Preview { … }, #expect(…), #require(…) and #externalMacro(…) leave the # unclassified and the name as a function or plain text, while #available, #selector and #if get meta. Raw strings and extended regexes are already taken by the collector, so any remaining #name is a directive or macro expansion and the list can become one general pattern (which is also shorter).

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{ className: 'meta', regex: /#(?:if|elseif|else|endif|available|unavailable|selector|keyPath|sourceLocation|warning|error|fileID|filePath|file|line|column|function)\b/g },
{ className: 'meta', regex: /#[A-Za-z_]\w*/g },

Optional test:

  it('classes every freestanding macro like the built-in directives', () => {
    for (const text of ['#Preview', '#expect', '#externalMacro']) expect(classes(`${text}(x)`, text, 'swift')).toEqual(['meta'])
  })

Comment thread src/languages/swift.ts
{ className: 'attr', regex: /@[A-Za-z_]\w*/g },
{ className: 'variable', regex: /\$(?:\d+|[A-Za-z_]\w*)/g },
{ className: 'literal', regex: /\b(?:true|false|nil)\b/g },
{ className: 'keyword', regex: /\b(?:actor|any|as|associatedtype|async|await|borrowing|break|case|catch|class|consuming|continue|convenience|copy|default|defer|deinit|didSet|distributed|do|dynamic|each|else|enum|extension|fallthrough|fileprivate|final|for|func|get|guard|if|import|indirect|infix|init|inout|internal|in|is|isolated|lazy|let|mutating|nonisolated|nonmutating|open|operator|optional|override|package|postfix|precedencegroup|prefix|private|protocol|public|repeat|required|rethrows|return|self|set|some|static|struct|subscript|super|switch|throw|throws|try|typealias|unowned|var|weak|where|while|willSet)\b/g },

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Keywords are matched right after . and contextual keywords are matched when they are ordinary identifiers, which is common in docs code: .package(url: "…", from: "1.0.0") and let package = Package( in a Package.swift, case .default:, .open, .optional, x.copy(), var set = Set<Int>() and let copy = x all come out as keywords. This version skips keywords after . (except .self and .init) and stops treating the contextual words as keywords when they are followed by = or :, while open class, { get set }, private(set), package func, some View and async let still highlight as before. Since it is the same line, it also adds macro to the contextual words so public macro stringify<T>(…) declarations get a keyword.

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{ className: 'keyword', regex: /\b(?:actor|any|as|associatedtype|async|await|borrowing|break|case|catch|class|consuming|continue|convenience|copy|default|defer|deinit|didSet|distributed|do|dynamic|each|else|enum|extension|fallthrough|fileprivate|final|for|func|get|guard|if|import|indirect|infix|init|inout|internal|in|is|isolated|lazy|let|mutating|nonisolated|nonmutating|open|operator|optional|override|package|postfix|precedencegroup|prefix|private|protocol|public|repeat|required|rethrows|return|self|set|some|static|struct|subscript|super|switch|throw|throws|try|typealias|unowned|var|weak|where|while|willSet)\b/g },
{ className: 'keyword', regex: /\b(?:init|self)\b|(?<!\.)\b(?:as|associatedtype|await|break|case|catch|class|continue|default|defer|deinit|do|else|enum|extension|fallthrough|fileprivate|for|func|guard|if|import|inout|internal|in|is|let|operator|precedencegroup|private|protocol|public|repeat|rethrows|return|static|struct|subscript|super|switch|throw|throws|try|typealias|var|where|while|(?:actor|any|async|borrowing|consuming|convenience|copy|didSet|distributed|dynamic|each|final|get|indirect|infix|isolated|lazy|macro|mutating|nonisolated|nonmutating|open|optional|override|package|postfix|prefix|required|set|some|unowned|weak|willSet)\b(?!\s*[:=](?!=)))\b/g },

Optional test:

  it('keeps member names and identifiers named like contextual keywords out of keywords', () => {
    for (const [code, text] of [['let package = Package()', 'package'], ['[.package(url: "x")]', 'package'], ['style = .default', 'default'], ['var set = Set<Int>()', 'set']]) expect(classes(code, text, 'swift')).not.toContain('keyword')
    for (const [code, text] of [['open class Box {}', 'open'], ['var v: Int { get { 1 } set {} }', 'set'], ['package func f() {}', 'package'], ['Foo.self', 'self'], ['super.init()', 'init'], ['public macro m() = #externalMacro(module: "M", type: "T")', 'macro']]) expect(classes(code, text, 'swift')).toEqual(['keyword'])
  })

Comment thread src/languages/swift.ts
{ className: 'keyword', regex: /\b(?:actor|any|as|associatedtype|async|await|borrowing|break|case|catch|class|consuming|continue|convenience|copy|default|defer|deinit|didSet|distributed|do|dynamic|each|else|enum|extension|fallthrough|fileprivate|final|for|func|get|guard|if|import|indirect|infix|init|inout|internal|in|is|isolated|lazy|let|mutating|nonisolated|nonmutating|open|operator|optional|override|package|postfix|precedencegroup|prefix|private|protocol|public|repeat|required|rethrows|return|self|set|some|static|struct|subscript|super|switch|throw|throws|try|typealias|unowned|var|weak|where|while|willSet)\b/g },
{ className: 'type', regex: /\b(?:actor|class|enum|protocol|struct|typealias)\s+([\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*)/gu, group: 1 },
{ className: 'type', regex: /\b(?:Any|AnyObject|Array|Bool|Character|Dictionary|Double|Float|Int(?:8|16|32|64)?|Never|Optional|Result|Self|Set|String|UInt(?:8|16|32|64)?|Void)\b/g },
{ className: 'function', regex: /[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*(?=\s*\()/gu },

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The function pattern has no left boundary, so on a long identifier-like run it restarts at every character and goes quadratic: 60k characters of a take about 7.2 s here (_ 7.0 s, 1_ and 0x 3.5 s). Only starting at the beginning of an identifier brings all of them down to 1–5 ms.

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{ className: 'function', regex: /[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*(?=\s*\()/gu },
{ className: 'function', regex: /(?<![\p{L}\p{N}_])[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*(?=\s*\()/gu },

Optional test:

  it('scans long identifier runs in linear time', () => {
    const code = 'a'.repeat(100_000)
    expect(classes(code, code, 'swift')).not.toContain('function')
  }, 1000)

Comment thread src/languages/swift.ts
const close = quote + hashes
const escape = regex ? '\\' : '\\' + hashes
while (index < code.length) {
if (code.startsWith(close, index)) return index + close.length

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A single-line " string never stops at a line break, so one stray quote keeps the string open and flips string parity for the rest of the block. With a bare regex literal such as

let r = /[^"]+/
let name = "Ada"
let ready = true

"]+/ through let name = " becomes one string, Ada is left as code and let ready = true is coloured as a string. Ending non-""" strings at the newline keeps the damage to one line; interpolations have their own loop, so "\(items.map { spanning lines, multi-line strings, raw strings and extended regexes are unchanged.

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if (code.startsWith(close, index)) return index + close.length
if (code.startsWith(close, index)) return index + close.length
if (quote === '"' && /[\r\n]/.test(code[index])) return index

Optional test:

  it('ends single-line strings at the line break', () => {
    const code = 'let r = /[^"]+/\nlet name = "Ada"\nlet ready = true'
    expect(classes(code, '"Ada"', 'swift')).toEqual(['string'])
    expect(classes(code, 'true', 'swift')).toEqual(['literal'])
  })

tokenize: patternTokenizer([
{ collect: collectPowerShellLexicalRanges },
{ className: 'literal', regex: /\$(?:true|false|null)\b/gi },
{ className: 'variable', regex: /\$\{(?:`[\s\S]|[^}`])*\}|[$@](?:[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+:)?[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+|\$[$^]/gu },

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The ${…} alternative here backtracks on unterminated ${ runs: 60k characters of ${ take about 1.9 s ("${ about 1.3 s). The collector already emits every braced variable, so without the alternative ${my var}, ${env:ProgramFiles(x86)} and ${a`}b} keep exactly the same output and both inputs drop to a few ms. The only difference I found is that an escaped `${x} outside a string is no longer coloured as a variable, which matches PowerShell treating the escaped $ as literal text.

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{ className: 'variable', regex: /\$\{(?:`[\s\S]|[^}`])*\}|[$@](?:[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+:)?[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+|\$[$^]/gu },
{ className: 'variable', regex: /[$@](?:[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+:)?[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+|\$[$^]/gu },

Optional test:

  it('scans unterminated braced variables in linear time', () => {
    const code = '${'.repeat(50_000)
    expect(classes(code, code, 'pwsh')).toEqual(['variable'])
  }, 1000)

{ className: 'literal', regex: /\$(?:true|false|null)\b/gi },
{ className: 'variable', regex: /\$\{(?:`[\s\S]|[^}`])*\}|[$@](?:[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+:)?[\p{L}\p{N}_?]+|\$[$^]/gu },
{ className: 'type', regex: /\[(?:[A-Za-z_]\w*\.)*[A-Za-z_]\w*(?:\[\])?\]/g },
{ className: 'keyword', regex: /(?<![\w-])(?:begin|break|catch|class|clean|continue|data|do|dynamicparam|else|elseif|end|enum|exit|filter|finally|for|foreach|function|if|in|param|process|return|switch|throw|trap|try|until|using|while|workflow|parallel|sequence|inlinescript)(?![\w-])/gi },

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Member names after . are matched as keywords because the lookbehind excludes word characters and - but not ., so $job.End, $proc.Process, $x.Begin and $y.Data highlight End, Process, Begin and Data as keywords. Adding . to the lookbehind makes them properties and leaves the statement keywords alone.

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{ className: 'keyword', regex: /(?<![\w-])(?:begin|break|catch|class|clean|continue|data|do|dynamicparam|else|elseif|end|enum|exit|filter|finally|for|foreach|function|if|in|param|process|return|switch|throw|trap|try|until|using|while|workflow|parallel|sequence|inlinescript)(?![\w-])/gi },
{ className: 'keyword', regex: /(?<![\w.-])(?:begin|break|catch|class|clean|continue|data|do|dynamicparam|else|elseif|end|enum|exit|filter|finally|for|foreach|function|if|in|param|process|return|switch|throw|trap|try|until|using|while|workflow|parallel|sequence|inlinescript)(?![\w-])/gi },

Optional test:

  it('keeps member names out of keywords', () => {
    for (const text of ['End', 'Process', 'Data']) expect(classes(`$job.${text}`, text, 'pwsh')).toEqual(['property'])
  })

@Sheraff Sheraff mentioned this pull request Oct 6, 2026
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