I was prepared to hate this article based on the clickbaity headline "...everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong". But I agree with the premise, and I find his proposed scheme a lot better than some of the most popular colour schemes that I see online.
But I use the Nord colour scheme in VS Code, and it appears to follow the same principles as what the author proposes. There are only a few colours, with a lot of the code remaining in the base colour. Also, Python comments starting with `#` are dimmed, but comments in triple-quote blocks are highlighted. The funny thing is that I had never even noticed this, it just seemed to be intuitive.
But I use the Nord colour scheme in VS Code, and it appears to follow the same principles as what the author proposes. There are only a few colours, with a lot of the code remaining in the base colour. Also, Python comments starting with `#` are dimmed, but comments in triple-quote blocks are highlighted. The funny thing is that I had never even noticed this, it just seemed to be intuitive.