Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures

Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures by vanderZwan on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:31PM (#14822300)

Use them for a bit before judging it, don't forget that you've trained yourself to read some character combinations as meaningful.

After using Fira Code for a while, I can say code looks weird without it. Especially plain === and => look really jarring now. The ligatures also help me spot typos!

Regardless of the ligatures, one of the cooler things about Monoid is how it tries to fix kerning problems inherent to monospace fonts:

https://medium.com/larsenwork-andreas-larsen/class-based-con...

https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/issues/56

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Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures by TheOtherDave on Saturday July 22, 2017 @11:40AM (#14827706)

I'd like to use it, but they turn custom operators such as "|>|" into an illegible jumble of characters (in this case, "▷|"). If I'd wanted my operator to be "▷|", I'd have defined it that way.

Now, if they can come up with a way to selectively turn the ligatures off and on, I'll give it another go. Until then, I'm perfectly happy to see the occasional "<=" or something.

Also, that "www" ligature is the stuff of nightmares. Never, ever, with I use that on my computer.

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