FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by Lwrless » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 2:35 AM UTC

FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
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Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by bobnamob » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 8:44 AM UTC

To kick start some discussion, I’ve been using FiraCode (with ligatures on) for the last year or so. No complaints, it stays out of the way like a good font should.

I’ll admit I prefer ligatures while working with ML syntax and Lisps, they feel a little wrong(?) when working with C style languages. Is anyone aware of a way to toggle them on a per language basis in vs code?

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 8:56 AM UTC

bobnamob wrote: post #2

To kick start some discussion, I’ve been using FiraCode (with ligatures on) for the last year or so. No complaints, it stays out of the way like a good font should. I’ll admit I prefer ligatures while working with ML syntax and Lisps, they feel a little wrong(?) when working with C style languages. Is anyone aware of a way to toggle them on a per language basis in vs code?

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Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by wlkr » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM UTC

bobnamob wrote: post #2

To kick start some discussion, I’ve been using FiraCode (with ligatures on) for the last year or so. No complaints, it stays out of the way like a good font should. I’ll admit I prefer ligatures while working with ML syntax and Lisps, they feel a little wrong(?) when working with C style languages. Is anyone aware of a way to toggle them on a per language basis in vs code?

You can accomplish this through the settings.

  "[c]": {
      "editor.fontLigatures": true
  },

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by sbalamurugan » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 9:07 AM UTC

This works really well with the R’s native pipe |> Make the R code look really nice!

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by mvid » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 9:14 AM UTC

This is the first setting I make when configuring IntelliJ on a new machine. Also make sure to enable ligatures

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by wlkr » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 9:14 AM UTC

Of course, this is all very subjective, but I do find Fira Code to be a beautiful coding font. I also appreciate having ligatures in fonts nowadays. Fira Code was my go-to for a long time, but I've come to increasingly use Jetbrains Mono which is available under the same Open Font Licence and is quite similar (although slightly preferable visually to me).

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by justjoined2 » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 9:15 AM UTC

sbalamurugan wrote: post #5

This works really well with the R’s native pipe |> Make the R code look really nice!

Yes! For anyone curious, this is how it looks (just some random code I'm working on): https://i.snipboard.io/F4zwad.jpg.

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by AlchemistCamp » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 9:45 AM UTC

This was my primary editor font for years! It’s clear, looks nice and is reasonably space-efficient, too.

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by Bootvis » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 9:48 AM UTC

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #9

This was my primary editor font for years! It’s clear, looks nice and is reasonably space-efficient, too.

Sounds great but you write was. Did you change your font to something else?