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I don't find that this font outperforms any of those fonts on any of the metrics listed on the website (crispness, legibility). Is this, like, a subjective thing? Or do I have bad taste?
Devoting more than a couple of minutes to choosing an IDE font seems like the height of bikeshedding to me. Using cursive in your IDE just seems completely beyond reason... I have no idea at all why this is becoming so trendy. Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?
As pointed out several times on a recent discussion, including responses to this question, programmers spend a lot of time staring at text. It’s not unreasonable to want to find a good typeface. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303707 “I don’t see the reason” is rarely a good rationale for blaming those who do for being wastrels.
1) The difference between the best (according to your own taste) font your IDE offers off the shelf, and the best font you can find anywhere in existence seems marginal to me.
2) Optimising for readability and then introducing cursive to your IDE seems like two diometrically opposed ideas to me.
I’m not trying to be a Luddite or a hipster. Do what makes you happy. I just don’t get this trend and can’t help but think it’s a waste of time, especially if productivity is one of the supposed goals of this.
The site seems to create a huge amount of load on my computer. As soon as I open the page, usage across all 4 of my cpu cores seems to shoot up from 1-10% all the way to 70-100%. I'm running Firefox 69 on arch linux.
Just tested on arch w/FF 70 and much worse.
Can somebody explain to me why narrow programming fonts seem to be trending so strongly lately? I really don't understand, personally. I have a much, MUCH harder time reading a narrow font. I also find it aesthetically inferior to a "non-narrow" font so much that even if it was as readable or more, I feel like I would have a hard time getting myself to use it. Is there some other aspect that people like, such as bein…
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From the OP's section titled "Why?" : > When it comes to programming fonts, I prefer something strict, readable and relatively condensed for the code proper, complemented with a more informal, flowing and human style for things like comments and reserved keywords.
Also from FAQ : > A programming font with cursive italics and ligatures is the worst idea in the world. This is absolutely horrible. BTW, I am really angry. > [Answer:] Not really a question, but anyway: People actually like different things. And it's OK. It's OK if someone else prefers a different font for code than you do. We don't have to use the same one. ️ (though obv. parent post is not hostile like this Q)
You probably have never heard a cursing Italian.
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As pointed out several times on a recent discussion, including responses to this question, programmers spend a lot of time staring at text. It’s not unreasonable to want to find a good typeface. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303707 “I don’t see the reason” is rarely a good rationale for blaming those who do for being wastrels.
I’m not blaming anybody for anything, and I understand that some people enjoy endlessly tinkering with their setups. What I don’t understand is why this particular topic has become so popular recently (I’ve seen so many posts about it) for two reasons. 1) The difference between the best (according to your own taste) font your IDE offers off the shelf, and the best font you can find anywhere in existence seems margina…
Why is this better than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Consolas, SF Mono, Pragmata Pro, and Operator Mono? The reason can be anything, but what is the reason? I don't find that this font outperforms any of those fonts on any of the metrics listed on the website (crispness, legibility). Is this, like, a subjective thing? Or do I have bad taste?
Yes, “crispness” and especially “legibility” are subjective traits.
> Or do I have bad taste?
Taste is also subjective.
Can somebody explain to me why narrow programming fonts seem to be trending so strongly lately? I really don't understand, personally. I have a much, MUCH harder time reading a narrow font. I also find it aesthetically inferior to a "non-narrow" font so much that even if it was as readable or more, I feel like I would have a hard time getting myself to use it. Is there some other aspect that people like, such as bein…
Pro tip - Consolas is good enough. Any other font won't make you faster, happier or wealthier.
I appreciate the effort, the font looks solid, but I really don't understand the new trend of using italic in the code syntax. It seems like every trendy frontend engineer has their sublime text or vscode set up with a font that uses italic for imports, comments, etc and I really don't see the appeal.
What's interesting to me is that if you use one of these fonts in an editor with Rust or another language they'll usually look quite like any other regular font without any fancy cursive or whatnot. My assumption is that it's the editor's implementation, but I found it interesting that the use of these fonts (or at least, proper implementation thereof) seems to lean heavily towards Javascript. Or am I missing somethi…
No Imgur, I don’t want to accept your cookies policy just to see an image.
