Investigate the use of shiki as the library for syntax highlighting

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Proposal

Use shiki, https://shiki.style/, as the syntax highlighting library for mystmd. It uses the same syntax highlighting engine as vscode and has very good tooling.

• It uses TextMate grammars for its language definitions. Which is the same definitions that are used by vscode and GitHub's linquist among others.
  • The output it produces is very good.
  • there is a large number of high-quality language definitions already defined.
  • It also allows reusing vscode color themes.
• It is supports being run in a compilation step for static generation and at runtime in the end users browser.
• It has a extensive API for defining transformations and decorations

Additional notes

It is used in a lot of open source projects

• Astro
• Nuxt
• vitepress