I think color can make reading faster and easier, it's why syntax highlighting exists.
Not everyone likes or wants syntax highlighting. Personally I find it distracting at best and often actively hostile to being able to read the code (dark blue on black for comments!?)
Doesn't this just mean you're using a suboptimal syntax theme? There a million out there with sufficient color contrast, there's no reason not to use one.
Not everyone likes or wants syntax highlighting. Personally I find it distracting at best and often actively hostile to being able to read the code (dark blue on black for comments!?)
http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/