--- title: Blockman - Highlight nested code blocks | daily.dev description: VSCode extension - Blockman. You can customize block colors, depth, turn on-off focus, curly/square/round brackets, and more.Supports Python, Dart, Rust,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/blockman---highlight-nested-code-blocks-hm7vfx1zc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Blockman - Highlight nested code blocks | daily.dev og:description: VSCode extension - Blockman. You can customize block colors, depth, turn on-off focus, curly/square/round brackets, and more.Supports Python, Dart, Rust,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/blockman---highlight-nested-code-blocks-hm7vfx1zc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hM7VFx1zC.png og:image:alt: Blockman - Highlight nested code blocks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Blockman - Highlight nested code blocks **[Product Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/ph)** · 1 min read · 46 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary VSCode extension - Blockman. You can customize block colors, depth, turn on-off focus, curly/square/round brackets, and more.Supports Python, Dart, Rust, Swift, R, Go, PHP, JavaScript, JSX, TypeScript, TSX, C, C#, C++, Java, HTML, CSS and more... ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ignusg** · 3 upvotes > Really nice idea! I hope this gets baked into VS Code natively since it does either work with a delay for rendering or eats resources like a kid candy. > > > After I disabled it due to the performance I immediately noticed how much visual hierarchy it was providing to the code. **@jessy** · 0 upvotes > Thanks, good extension **@izzy122** · 0 upvotes > Nice extension, does it have WebStorm edition? --- Tags: [#c](https://daily.dev/tags/c), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#r](https://daily.dev/tags/r), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#swift](https://daily.dev/tags/swift), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/blockman---highlight-nested-code-blocks-hm7vfx1zc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Blockman - Highlight nested code blocks","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/blockman---highlight-nested-code-blocks-hm7vfx1zc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/blockman---highlight-nested-code-blocks-hm7vfx1zc"},"datePublished":"2021-07-06T07:03:47.171Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:45:38.539Z","description":"VSCode extension - Blockman. 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I hope this gets baked into VS Code natively since it does either work with a delay for rendering or eats resources like a kid candy.\n\nAfter I disabled it due to the performance I immediately noticed how much visual hierarchy it was providing to the code.","datePublished":"2021-07-06T09:56:43.933Z","dateModified":"2021-07-06T09:58:12.066Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/hM7VFx1zC#c-G04gtWSD3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"IgnusG","url":"https://daily.dev/ignusg","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto/v1643464938/avatars/PlPdeFARQ"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks, good extension","datePublished":"2021-07-06T13:23:03.055Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/hM7VFx1zC#c-O4BJZ5WzJ","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessy","url":"https://daily.dev/jessy","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34346742?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice extension, does it have WebStorm edition?","datePublished":"2021-07-07T03:01:43.089Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/hM7VFx1zC#c-v_M16fdTR","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"takeItIzzy","url":"https://daily.dev/izzy122","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto/v1603774052/avatars/mVvSnGgYj"}}]} ```