Why hackers moved from Prism to Shiki

1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.

Prism 1 hacker criticizes it
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Shiki 1 hacker recommends it

What hackers said about the move

“I switched from Prism to https://shiki.style/ recently to enable that, and allow VSCode-style wrapping (where it wraps to the indent, rather than the start of the line).”
jaffathecake, 2026-08-10original comment ↗

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Prism vs Shiki

PrismShiki
Hackers who recommend01
Hackers who criticize10
Moved away from it10
Moved to it01

Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.

Criticism of Prism

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Praise for Shiki

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