It is actually scientific that the light theme (dark on bright) is more readable, has much better contrast and makes you more productive. Dark theme on the other hand makes you work much harder in order to comperehend what you are seeing.
Most of the developers use it because most of developers just like fads or what they think makes them cool.
Just like so many of them insist on coding on an Apple machine for no reason (even though Apple is cleary anti-developer and they basically use Chrome anyway), or think that developing with a half keyboard or 3/4 laptop keyboard (like in the ads you attached to your article) is not a really bad idea, or prefereing the obviously forced and very error-prone javascript language, or hating Microsoft even though it's one of the only companies that care about giving really good tools to them, etc, etc...
I have seen with my own eyes how my developers struggle with the dark theme (not seeing things, having a hard time reading) while insisting at the same time that it's better (because everyone else says it's better...)
The only valid argument is that it's easier on the eyes when you are in a dark room (but it's still less readable so it's a compromise), but how often does that happen anyway ?
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It is actually scientific that the light theme (dark on bright) is more readable, has much better contrast and makes you more productive. Dark theme on the other hand makes you work much harder in order to comperehend what you are seeing.
Most of the developers use it because most of developers just like fads or what they think makes them cool.
Just like so many of them insist on coding on an Apple machine for no reason (even though Apple is cleary anti-developer and they basically use Chrome anyway), or think that developing with a half keyboard or 3/4 laptop keyboard (like in the ads you attached to your article) is not a really bad idea, or prefereing the obviously forced and very error-prone javascript language, or hating Microsoft even though it's one of the only companies that care about giving really good tools to them, etc, etc...
I have seen with my own eyes how my developers struggle with the dark theme (not seeing things, having a hard time reading) while insisting at the same time that it's better (because everyone else says it's better...)
The only valid argument is that it's easier on the eyes when you are in a dark room (but it's still less readable so it's a compromise), but how often does that happen anyway ?