I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Syntax highlighting is usually easier to read in a dark theme. By most measures, bright neon colors on a black or dark background have better contrast than dark colors (navy blue, brick red, etc) on a white background. When your job involves as much reading as software development does, making it fast matters, and it's easier for most people to read quickly when you're dealing with better contrast.
There are other reasons of course, but that's one that I feel does not get mentioned enough, possibly because many people just don't think about it.
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Syntax highlighting is usually easier to read in a dark theme. By most measures, bright neon colors on a black or dark background have better contrast than dark colors (navy blue, brick red, etc) on a white background. When your job involves as much reading as software development does, making it fast matters, and it's easier for most people to read quickly when you're dealing with better contrast.
There are other reasons of course, but that's one that I feel does not get mentioned enough, possibly because many people just don't think about it.