When comparing punchy.vim vs Dracula, the Slant community recommends Dracula for most people. In the question“What are the best VIM color-schemes?” Dracula is ranked 3rd while punchy.vim is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Dracula is:
Sublime, Atom, Vim, iTerm, Terminal.app, Zsh, Slack, TextMate, Emacs, Visual Studio Code/Visual Studio, Xcode, IntelliJ, and more.
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Pros
Pro Has a cyberpunk version with four styles: light, slate, normal, high-contrast
Pro Cyberpunk High Contrast is for people like me who love cyberpunk style
Pro Available for many popular editors, terminals, etc.
Sublime, Atom, Vim, iTerm, Terminal.app, Zsh, Slack, TextMate, Emacs, Visual Studio Code/Visual Studio, Xcode, IntelliJ, and more.
Pro Great in lots of languages
Even for Markdown.
Pro Perfect color pitch
Colors are perfectly pitched, easy to focus on scripts and shells.
Pro Well designed
Pro Very good for the eyes
It looks very good, with a little of blue light. It also works very well with MacOS's Night Shift. I would recommend this theme for starters.
Cons
Con Consistency
Some colors are too vibrant and bright.