Anyone know of any sublime themes which take this less is more philosophy to heart? Tending to agree with this for the most part.

I find the usefulness of syntax highlighting more or less to be a kind of always on linter in that I can see when I make a typo in that if and can see where I'm missing a closing quote.

I dont know what the optimum middle ground would be but I think I'm going to play around with some different sets tomorrow and see if I can strike the right balance.

I think he has a point especially regarding underlining and highlighting by coloring the background of words, which can often be hard to distinguish. I am quite used to IntelliJ's Darcula theme though and like most of the defaults there.

Does anyone know if there was ever done some serious research on this?