I am wondering whether the proofreading study (Piepenbrock 2013) does transfer to coding. I assume it is focused on reading text in general.
From my personal experience I like dark themes, because different keywords are highlighted in distinct colors (bright green, hot pink, yellow...) which are easy to differentiate. In light themes most of the text colors look quite similar (dark sth.) almost the same to me.
I'd assume in dark themes the code can be easier parsed as the different kinds of keywords and it is therefore easier to understand the meaning of the code. For example while scrolling and skimming through the code you see all the green function signatures immediately.
Someone should conduct a study specifically on reading code with dark vs light themes. Maybe there the results would be different.
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I am wondering whether the proofreading study (Piepenbrock 2013) does transfer to coding. I assume it is focused on reading text in general.
From my personal experience I like dark themes, because different keywords are highlighted in distinct colors (bright green, hot pink, yellow...) which are easy to differentiate. In light themes most of the text colors look quite similar (dark sth.) almost the same to me.
I'd assume in dark themes the code can be easier parsed as the different kinds of keywords and it is therefore easier to understand the meaning of the code. For example while scrolling and skimming through the code you see all the green function signatures immediately.
Someone should conduct a study specifically on reading code with dark vs light themes. Maybe there the results would be different.