Coloring your parens seems like a good idea when you’re getting started, but in my experience it’s actually quite counterproductive in the long run since it trains you to count the parens and manually match them up in your head. This is the lisp equivalent of sounding out words as you’re learning to read; a crutch that can help early on, but will prevent you from getting fully up to speed once you gain experience.
If your editor is set up to balance parens for you (using paredit, which is basically a prerequisite for writing lisp since doing it yourself is tedious) then matching them up in your head is a waste of time.
Coloring your parens seems like a good idea when you’re getting started, but in my experience it’s actually quite counterproductive in the long run since it trains you to count the parens and manually match them up in your head. This is the lisp equivalent of sounding out words as you’re learning to read; a crutch that can help early on, but will prevent you from getting fully up to speed once you gain experience.
If your editor is set up to balance parens for you (using paredit, which is basically a prerequisite for writing lisp since doing it yourself is tedious) then matching them up in your head is a waste of time.