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Thanks for sharing.
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I do a lot of my coding at night, and the dark theme is much easier on the eyes. Plus running on a 55" 4k screen, all white tends to just be a lot of light.
Real programmers use butterflies
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55" 4k? I assume you'll not sit too close to it.
TOMZ_KV
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Ehhh. I don't know what too close is. It's not backlit, it's QLED so it's not as bad as older screens.
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QLED is backlit. But it uses LEDs for backlight as opposed to vacuum tube lamps.
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Oh. I did not know that. I thought LED screens didn't need backlight.
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They need it because LEDs are bright. If you don't backlight the screen you would get bright colors much more aggressive on your eyes and bleeding out in the neighboring dark pixels, creating artifacts and glares on a pixel by pixel basis.
So you keep a backlight and lower the intensity of the LEDs. A non backlit LED screen with a dark mode would look like a lot of pinpricks slammed in your eyeballs.
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Nostalgia... I was a ZX Spectrum kid.
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8 bits then and 64 bits now. Increased by 8 times. Not really advanced a lot considering 40 years computing history.
TOMZ_KV
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A white background is better for my eyes these days.
Bright-colored text and graphics (not images) moving on a black screen causes me headaches.
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I cannot get used to a dark theme either.
TOMZ_KV
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Kind Regards Just yesterday I set the text background to a yellow color similar to here I find it rather soothing after long use of Blue Theme in Visual Studio I also have difficulty tolerating dark theme though it appears impressive - _Cheerio_
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Been using the dark theme for a long time now, I can't imagine going back to the light one, it's a bit hard on the eyes now. Besides, light attracts bugs :P
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Jacquers wrote: Besides, light attracts bugs
Biologically true. Programmatically true too? 
TOMZ_KV
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Just glad we don't use CRTs anymore. The blue background of the Turbo Pascal IDE couldn't have been great for my eyes.
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My memory of Turbo Pascal was yellow text on a black background, which I quite liked. I set Turbo C up to be the same. I do find dark themes work well for me, though.
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As with most things, the answer is "it depends"
I find light-on-dark easier to read most of the time, but have recently written a small systray app to switch the overall windows theme between light and dark (and much of my software follows) so that when I'm working outside (which I've started doing because the weather is quite pleasant), I switch to a light theme, to be able to see what's on my screen more effectively.
There are some points to ponder in this discussion though, including plain-old-preference and light sensitivity (I find bright colors on the screen to be rather harsh - even light outside can be a little much sometimes, but I feel like I adjust to it better once I'm actually out there - so perhaps it's more of a contrast issue)
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Dark theme for dark environments, light theme for light environments.
But you really shouldn't work in a dark environment.
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People get older. White light dazzles because when you are no longer young, the vitreous humor of the eye is disorganized and manifests halos in the presence of intense light and filaments that seem to fly.
Adopting a dark theme minimizes the effects of an eye that is no longer perfect. The programmers who are no longer very young, those with the experience necessary to manage non-trivial projects, are getting older and older.
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I had (I've since had curative surgery) cataracts and a white background drowned out the text, especially because the text color was not full black, but a softer, grayish black.
Dark themes allowed me to read the text. It's as simple as that.
Windows "Ease of Access" settings were fine up to a point. I found the "High contrast" settings ultimately unhelpful.
The worst problem I had was with web pages. Browsers try to help but they can only go so far.
Web apps such as JIRA, Confluence, etc., had no dark or high contrast mode.
Before the surgery it was very fatiguing. At the end of the day I was usually wiped out.
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The pixels of an OLED screen only draw power when they are illuminated. Dark themes save energy, which is important for portable computers and phones. As people get used to dark themes on their phones, they are going to bring that preference across to computers. Where is my OLED laptop?!!
I'm totally in the white-background-causes-eyestrain camp. You can turn the brightness of your monitor down to the point where black text on white background is tolerable, but then images look dark and lack detail. A dark theme makes just the text darker.
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The dark themes saved my eye sight. I was going blind from white backgrounds, too much LED light. I almost didn't pass my DMV eye sight test. I went black theme on everything, and my eyesight came back within a couple of weeks. Sort of like the old days or monochrome monitors with green text.
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