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by koenvdb 1369 days ago
One Dark Pro Darker. But I have a long list of themes where I just randomly pick on ones in a while. Sometimes I switch to a light theme and sometimes a dark one. I have the same thing as you, it's also dependent on which language I'm working on the most. Some themes work better with one language than the other.
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> One Dark Pro Darker

Oh, nice. Will be testing out this one.

> [...] I just randomly pick on ones in a while

Oh, interesting. Do you find that it takes a period of time after switching before your eyes become accustomed to the change (from a quick-code-readability perspective)?

> Some themes work better with one language than the other.

Yeah, this is the most annoying part for me.

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I remember reading a post a long time ago praising the benefits of not using syntax highlighting while coding (I'm not sure, but it may have been this one: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/). Not sure if I could ever get used to not having syntax highlighting, but so much of what I like/dislike about themes revolves around syntax highlighting... perhaps it's worth testing for a period of time with syntax highlighting disabling (I assume this is even possible?).