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It doesn't solve my problem, but thanks? I guess
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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.
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 ๐คท so no bright lights when browsing web.
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.
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 ๐ค
Never heard of dbeaver, but I use JetBrains DataGrip 99% of the time, which looks the same as every other JB IDE (not bad). There are some super clunky but occasionally useful SQL Server tools in SSMS but for typical dev work there's nothing you really need.
DataGrip is a very good choice also. And JetBrains products are very good, if you can get a license, I would usually recommend those.
But I just prefer dbeaver because it's free to use, so I don't have to worry about license at work or at home ๐