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4 points

Light mode is the best and I think a significant number of people who oppose it are students or hobbyists who only program outside of typical work hours. During work hours, I want bright light to keep me alert. And I work in a well lit office and home mostly during the time of day when there’s lots of sunlight. Dark mode just doesn’t make sense for professionals.

Plus, if even a single documentation site or Google search uses a light theme (and many do, especially by default), you risk blinding yourself with the sudden flash to light. By comparison, if I’m using light mode and something else is in dark mode, it doesn’t hurt me at all.

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17 points

You can use Dark Reader for those sites. But I do get where you’re coming from.

I’m not in an IDE all day every day, but there are dashboards that I keep in light mode to subconsciously signal to myself to be extra careful in. It’s like how some Linux admins set their production shells to bright red.

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15 points

Almost every professional developer that I know uses dark mode. Maybe 1% uses light mode and those are people who code in legacy environment.

And for web, you have Dark Reader 🤷 so no bright lights when browsing web.

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5 points

SQL Server Management Studio still has no dark mode, although there is a hidden one that Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use (I think you need to change a registry flag, also it sucks). But I think Azure Data Studio might.

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2 points

Azure Data Studio uses vs code so it definitely supports full dark mode thankfully

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Personally I’ve been using lot of dbeaver for my database needs (mysql, oracle, postgress, apache drill, sqlite) which has a dark mode.

It should also work with sql server, but I’m not sure if is it’s missing some of the tools people need 🤔

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13 points

I don’t care what you prefer. But:

Dark mode just doesn’t make sense for professionals.

Come on.

I use a dark, low contrast theme and work in a nearly unlit room with my monitors on nearly minimum brightness. It’s comfortable and totally efficient. I understand wanting to switch to bright mode and use higher contrast when reading unfamiliar material, but code is not that. It is highly structured, repetitive (syntactically) and organized. So you can usually have a clear idea of what you’re looking at without relying much on visual details.

you risk blinding yourself with the sudden flash to light

Only if your monitors are way, way too bright for your environment.

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2 points

It has to be a troll

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5 points

Joke’s on you, first thing I do is closing the blinders in my office, when I come in to work.

But really, I just prefer dark themes. I can and will totally work with bright themes, if the GUI supports it, but if I have the choice, I chose dark themes wherever possible (e. g. Not for applications in bright sunlight). And yes, I work during daylight hours…

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Dark mode just doesn’t make sense for professionals.

What, you don’t skateboard down the hallway to the server room?

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