Catppuccin (Mocha): Uniforn Syntax Highlighting Across IDE's

Mon, Dec 22, 2025 in /coder/

One theme to rule them all…

While working on my current Mobile project, I’ve found myself flipping between the following IDEs:

Helix to bang out simple features.
Zed to comfortably scroll around longer files, reading to understand, and plan refactors.
Android Studio to develop Kotlin-based native modules using TDD.
Xcode to develop the iOS equivalent native module.

(I’m doing platform-specific code so that I can perform video modification tasks efficiently)

Configuring each one individually, I found a color scheme I liked. But as I switched between them, it irked me when syntax was highlighted in what seemed to be the opposite way.

It dawned on me to assimilate them, so I quickly asked ChatGPT, who pointed out Catppuccin (Mocha). Luckily, I actually like the color scheme, and the community strives to make it widely available. Now, I save my brain some processing by having them all use Catppuccin.

It’s brought me a little extra joy today, so I thought I’d share.

Merry Christmas :)

#Editors #IDEs #Themes #Helix #AndroidStudio #Xcode #Zed