If everyone else is is wrong, it might be that he’s the one who is wrong.
Actually, I read his post and he’s definitely wrong. Having coded in plaint text editors without syntax highlighting, I know the candy store look really aids locating needles on this haystack. He’s proposing making more needles hay-colored so the ones he thinks are more important become the focus.
It’s just his personal taste, if he loves visual fatigue, he should enjoy it without criticizing others.
Their examples where they’re trying to trick me into not finding things as quickly with a bunch of syntax highlighting worked exactly the opposite for me. Also I use dark theme because I don’t like burning a hole through my retinas from working all day it has nothing to do with highlighting options. This is a very subjective topic being presented as fact to such a degree it feels like satire
Agreed. My theme works for me and I’ve never had any issues finding anything.
I use GitHub Dark with high contrast. I also use this theme for nvim.
I think the key take away should be: experiment with themes and fonts and find something that works for you because if you’re like <author> some themes might be easier to work with.
