Re:Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no
by thuridas on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:57AM
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So now you have:
- A character harder to type
- The same potential confusion
- Code bases with both operators
Maybe programmers just need to know that ligatures exists. If you are programming in Java or Kotlin you know that intelliJ tend to use it.
Of course, if you have code, coping it to an ide with ligatures disabled will be rendered there old way just add it will use your preferred font or color highlighting schema.
So most of the problems are for images like slides.
Re:Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no
by hinkley on Sunday May 14, 2023 @02:46AM
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No you don’t have a code base with both operators. Either the editor catches it, or you transform the data at commit time, the same with other code formatters. This isn’t a new idea I’m presenting, just a new wrinkle on a very old one.
- A character harder to type
- The same potential confusion
- Code bases with both operators
Maybe programmers just need to know that ligatures exists. If you are programming in Java or Kotlin you know that intelliJ tend to use it.
Of course, if you have code, coping it to an ide with ligatures disabled will be rendered there old way just add it will use your preferred font or color highlighting schema.
So most of the problems are for images like slides.