Syntax highlighting in emacs. Marking different data types with different colours

Question

In Emacs, is it possible to mark all variables of different data types with different colors? e.g. if I have the following variables in C/C++ my program

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Answer 1

No, it's not possible to selectively assign a given color to a given variable in emacs (or just for one given program).
However, if it's just syntax highlighting you are looking for, of course, emacs will highlight most languages, and you can even create syntax highlighting for languages emacs would not know about.
Ex. Smali: https://github.com/strazzere/Emacs-Smali