When comparing Soda Light vs Gruvbox, the Slant community recommends Gruvbox for most people. In the question“What are the best color themes for text editors?” Gruvbox is ranked 2nd while Soda Light is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Gruvbox is:
Three different variants are available, each with different contrasts.
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Pros
Pro Light and unobtrusive
Pro Retina-ready UI
Pro Multiple contrast options
Three different variants are available, each with different contrasts.
Pro Very easy on the eyes
Both the light and dark version have a reddish background for a consistent look when toggling between them.
Pro Have light and dark version
Dark background has brown-yellowish retro colors, light background is yellowish with pastel highlights.
Pro Made ready for multiple text-editors
Ports for Atom, Sublime, TextMate and Emacs and other text editors are available.
For a full list of available ports.
If you are using a Jetbrains IDE.
Pro You can go all day with Gruvbox
Pro It can be customized in detail
Size of the tabs, icons of file types, contrast of the color schemes, accented colors, indentation in the sidebar, sizes of the status bar and dozens more.
Cons
Con FLAGGED FOR MALWARE AND PHISHING BY 2 DIFFERENT BROWSERS (FF & Vivaldi)
Yeahhh, I thought it was just a mistaken flag of the "I-don't-like-it-because-it-has-no-https-version" kind of thing but I tried it on Vivaldi a minute later and got the same thing (for the most part; said it in a slightly different wording which actually gave it more weight AFAIAC, but that is just my take on it. I might add that while I am not like Uber-Secure and running TOR on Kali Linux, I do have more than many people nowadays as far as security and such. (Not affiliated with but still recommend very highly restore-privacy.com they know what they are talking about and can steer you in the right direction (without being conspiracy nuts, btw!) ;-) mtg ) Anyway, not worth the risk. If there are 2 diff. browsers saying don't go, I don't go! mtg
Con That white is very painful to look at using an F.lux like applications
While it looks quite good for some time, using Night Shift/F.lux applications just makes reading things with Gruvbox quite painful.