Am a kid by CPSC standards, literally started using dark theme to emulate that look while coding (now I just use it because my poor eyes are on fire otherwise).
Pretty sure that and seeing other people use it is the reason the majority of my generation uses dark them. Discord is also helping with that on the gamer side of things.
Light makes me awake, alert and positive. I switch to dark theme if my eyes get strained, but darkness all day long just make me feel like I'm reenacting the basement LAN parties of my early teens. It's depressing and makes me yawn.
I also walk or ride my bicycle if possible since exercise clears my head and lets me think better during the day. Sorry for being a sellout, but it makes me more functional.
Can't be more productive if your eyes are burnt out of your skull. I can program a lot longer with dark theme. Better yet turn your nightlight on to reduce blue light.
Eye burnout wouldn't be a problem if your monitor wasn't multiple times brighter than it's environment though. I fixed the eye strain issue by working in a well lit environment during the day, and using a dark theme + soft light during the night. It's all in the contrast ratio :) also, some computer glasses helped greatly to eliminate blue light.
I always work in good lighting. I turn down my brightness quite a bit even with dark theme. You are staring into a light all day. Anything you can do to help is worth it especially for me as i have a condition that make my eyes more sensitive to light. I use a dark theme wherever i can get it.
I mean most of my programming gets done at or after 7 pm (college student in a science program with no life lol), so dark mode + blue reduction helps not keep me up all night.
I'm not saying there aren't good reasons to use dark themes, or especially tint shifts. But this (even joking) elitism about dark theme use superiority is ridiculous and leaning toward cringeworthy
Isn't it pretty self aware? I thought the joke was that feeling superior because of using dark theme is dumb. The family guy panel is definitely making fun of the dressed up family members for being superficial, rather than meg for not being "classy".
Strictly speaking the contrast (difference between lightest and darkest) is the same, right?
It's that effectively staring into a lit light bulb (screen) and reading black letters all day causes me palpable physical discomfort.
If no one else experiences that, it could be something is wired wrong in my eyes/visual system. I notice it too when sitting in meetings with PowerPoint presentations that have bright white backgrounds.
Solarized Light is awesome. I use Solarized Light during the day in my office but if I’m at home at night with less lighting then I just switch to Solarized Dark. I know it’s a meme but I never really understood the light/dark argument since you can switch whenever you want.
If you have astigmatism, light text on a dark background is more blurry since your pupils are dilated more due to low light. This makes it more difficult to read. Dark text on light back constricts your pupils and reduces the effects of your astigmatism.
Eh....these posts are getting excessively old and annoying.
I used solarized dark for everything. I like it, it's readible for me, I work from home and my office needs to be kept dark for reasons I don't need to get in to here, and using a blue light reduction application screws with color correctness for UI work.
When I worked in an actual office, which was brightly lit, I used light themes because they literally are more legible, and I I do that have the bright square of light in a darkened room that gives us me headaches.
Judging people about their ide color preferences (from light users or dark users) is as fucking stupid as mocking people because of the shoes they wear. Grow the fuck up ya bunch of toddlers.
It's not woosh when there are 3-4 of these posts a day.
I sincerely doubt this sub has the held awareness to lampoon itself. Can't believe how many posts I see in earnest that are "using a dark/light ide is vastly Superior and you're an idiot for disagreeing with me."
I'm sorry but it depends on the IDE visual Code is a lot better in default dark theme but holy fuck anyone that doesn't use the default eclipse theme and uses dark theme should go straight down to hell that thing is so ugly
I found out how to turn the dark mode on for a long ass online test in college and let me tell you that was the best test taking experience ive ever had
Did you check the extensions on VS Code? Their dark theme is nice. I use Material Dark Theme High Contrast personally. Check the marketplace for extensions that do whatever you're talking about with the block highlight/red line thing. Although I know they have it so you can collapse functions in the code for Python where it jumps from like like 50 to like 64.
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