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Comment by paxys | Hacker News Reader

We got monthly subscriptions for editor color schemes now??

It kind of boggles my mind too. Imagine all these new subscriptions possibilities today, and we're still driving around with a free google maps.

Aside, imagine if they decided to charge for Google Maps today, the shear loss of income for every physical location would be incredible.

They are charging for Google Maps today. You have to pay for your store to stand out.

I mean sure, every ad-driven service is paid for by someone.

I can see why it may make sense for JetBrains. JetBrains IDEs have extensive support for theming every type of element, and the IDEs are also continually evolving. The actual situation for many JetBrains color schemes (albeit free) are that that you may run into situations where something is not properly styled. I thought of redoing a Nord color scheme for a fun hour-long up to weekend thing and just didn't bother when I learned more about it.

That’s the issue with these “semantic” color schemes, high complexity with (maybe subjectively) low value. Look at this.name(), is it a variable, a property, a method, a bird, a plane? Who could tell without that lighten(resaturate(green, -20%), 17%) hint hardcoded as a fixed value?

Decent coloring systems use a few colors to structure the code/data/ui and that’s it. Nobody needs these hundreds of accents, it’s just a component of upselling.

The website is really well made, I like the theme and I think I use the normal version on VS Code.

A Color Theme subscription, this feels like a joke to me. I can get custom fonts and styles, but colors … and not even a new theme but a „remastered“ version …

Edit: Nope, using Dracula

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