why didn't slack render those as snippets...

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[Ray Rahke]

why didn't slack render those as snippets...

[Johann Pardanaud]

because slack doesn't support syntax highlighting, remove the kt part after the backticks

[Ray Rahke]

still

[Johann Pardanaud]

the wysiwyg editor is probably lost, try to erase and rewrite the backticks

[Klitos Kyriacou]

I don't know if it's dependent on environment, but I use the Slack app on Linux, and when I paste some text that contains backticks it asks me if I want to apply formatting.

[Johann Pardanaud]

that is an option available on every environments 😉

[Klitos Kyriacou]

It's also possible to paste Kotlin code, though I hear it's not always reliable:

Example kotlin snippet.kt