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Purely eye candy here--visual enjoyment that makes code seem more interesting and fun. Did anybody else go from needing a white background, to preferring a dar
by percept 11y ago
Purely eye candy here--visual enjoyment that makes code seem more interesting and fun.
Did anybody else go from needing a white background, to preferring a dark one?
(I had the zebra effect for years when trying to read light-on-dark, then one year something changed--I don't know exactly what.)
- teh_klev 11y agoYes, I switched to dark background mode a few years back and it's made a huge difference in my coding productivity and eye strain. There's one IDE I use occasionally that sadly has no ability to theme (PowerGUI for PowerShell) and you're stuck with a white background...and zebra effects after an hour or two using it.
- bluedino 11y ago>> Did anybody else go from needing a white background, to preferring a dark one? A white background was never preferable to me. So dang bright. I started on with gray on black (BASICA) and yellow on black (Turbo Pascal 2.0). Later on things like Q-BASIC used gray on blue (which I would occasionally change to green on black), and the Borland IDE's continued with a blue background, but added syntax highlighting. When I made the move to Windows and Visual C++, back we went to white backgrounds. Yikes. Xcode does this as well by default.
- shitgoose 11y agowent dark years ago, never looked back. "one year something changed - I don't know exactly what" - you matured:)
- percept 11y agoHave not--how dare you!