Dark mode has its touted benefits: Dimmer screens mean less eye strain, some assert; and on certain displays (including most smartphones), showing more black pixels prolongs battery life.
Even if these tradeoffs might be used to justify the use of inverted-color settings, they offer little insight into those settings' true appeal.
Computer programmers, for their part, have always liked the dark. Back when offices were the only places to work, some software companies housed their engineers in what I remember being called 'programmer pits'.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, I managed a large team of software engineers. They wrote programs for computer desktops, the web, and the handheld devices that predated smartphones.
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