Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by hyperhopper on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:05AM (#36927710)

> Since auto formatters disallow ascii art or custom alignment

This is not a universal truth. I've worked at faang companies that don't even do this.

In fact many great comments I've seen have been ASCII art diagrams. Those should be encouraged.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by seanmcdirmid on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:15AM (#36928383)

I haven’t seen any such in the last five years. Maybe C or C++ code? Java and kotlin auto formatters are pretty entrenched at this point, Python always has been, not sure about other language cultures.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding? by eternityforest on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:42AM (#36939178)

I did not know till I saw this comment how many ascii art and even diagram tools existed for vs code! I will probably be making use of some!

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