[olav]

I started as a developer in the 80s on vt100 terminals with green and amber on black screens. I vividly remember how nice it was to switch to a light background without flicker and have never looked back. Choose what works for you.

[fallinghawks]

I had VT100s in university and it was all green or amber monitors until Windows 3.0. It was a relief to the eyes to have something that looked like regular print on white paper. I find the default colors of dark mode syntax highlighting distractingly bright. The colors against white (or rather, light grey) seem less contrasty.

[ASalazarMX]

Amber monitors on a Hercules video card was supercrisp and easy on the eyes, but it was probably my young vision. Nowadays I also code better on white backgrounds, although I still prefer the console with black background.