2. You must have never written Haskell.
Re:“I just chose words carefully”
by qwerty1793 on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:49AM
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Or terraform.
They would complain if it's:
a = 1
ab = 2
abc = 3
Re:“I just chose words carefully”
by 1718627440 on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:45AM
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> I'm trading the ability to align statements on consecutive lines for a more pleasant reading experience.
I'm the opposite, I prefer non-proportional fonts even for prose.
Re:“I just chose words carefully”
by hiccuphippo on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:28AM
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Code editors should do this visually without adding actual space characters to the file.
why not go even further?
store the source minified without any extraneous whitespace and let the editor display a properly indented view in your preferred style...
Re:“I just chose words carefully”
by hiccuphippo on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:28AM
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An AST-based code editor. That would be neat.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one - I loved using proportional fonts. I find my ability to scan words is much faster than with monospaced, and I navigate semantically and prefer automated refactors so that I never really felt the need for multi-cursor editing or aligned blocks.
All that came to an end when I worked on a project using F#. It just doesn't work with meaningful whitespace. In the current world, with the prevalence of python, I can't really go back unfortunately. Maybe indenting with tabs is the way after all...
I am using my proportional font in Python too. The meaningful spaces are at the beginning of the line. 4 monospaced spaces become 4 narrower spaces, 8 monospaced spaces become 8 narrower spaces and they are still twice as wide as the 4 spaces.
I never had problems with Ruby, Python, JS, Elixir, Perl and probably other languages I used a little in the last 15 years or more. HTML and CSS too.
The best of both worlds would be achieved by elastic tabstops. https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
If only they took off.
That was the fun comment. The serious ones:
1. I'm trading the ability to align statements on consecutive lines for a more pleasant reading experience.
2. Nobody ever complained that my source code is
instead of 3. No tables or diagrams in comments of course but I think that I could configure my editor (emacs) to use a monospaced font there. I do use a monospaced font for the ``` ``` blocks of md files.4. I'm using Atkinson Hyperlegible Next https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/