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A comment on Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by jrm4 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:09PM (#36927429)
Broadly, it just seems weird that this appears to be such a difficult problem TODAY.

As in "Just tell the AI what code you want to write and the language and it will just magically do it for you" is like, sure, no problem, but we absolutely draw the line at "Use proportional fonts to make the code read nice on a page" because thats WAY TOO HARD

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by nequo on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:50PM (#36927643)
What is your proposed solution?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by jrm4 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:43PM (#36938255)
It feels as if there could be some "smart-ish" way to analyze and present source code with proportional fonts, but indent and move as needed.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by iimblack on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:12AM (#36927733)
Even if you’re a heavy user of AI for coding you have to read what the AI wrote. Code isn’t like other writing where you can skim past letters and your brain will fill it in for you. In code, each character is significant with even the case of single letters being important. I think it makes sense to optimize for clarity. Additionally, vim keybindings are significantly more awkward on non-monospaced fonts.
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