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FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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coffeebeqn wrote: post #29
_eojb wrote: post #28

Ligatures, IMO, make for a bad coding editor experience. No, I do not want >> parsed as a right shift when it's actually used as two adjacent template delimiters. And no, I'm not okay with the inconsistency that results from the usage of different operators from one programming language to another. Want to change a != to a == operator? Enjoy futzing with placing the cursor properly. It's a cute idea, but I found it m…

To each their own. I have never found them confusing or annoying in a half a dozen languages. If it doesn’t improve readability for your brain then definitely turn them off. In a language like Go or JS there aren’t very many operators so it’s not as bad as C might be. Still a great font without ligatures

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Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by zelphirkalt »

ninepoints wrote: post #25

Ligatures, IMO, make for a bad coding editor experience. No, I do not want >> parsed as a right shift when it's actually used as two adjacent template delimiters. And no, I'm not okay with the inconsistency that results from the usage of different operators from one programming language to another. It's a cute idea, but I found it more annoying to use in practice.

note: You have a duplicate comment.

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by tommica »

FiraCode was my goto for a while, and it really worked well. I'm pretty sure was my first "real" programming font that I chose deliberately. Though I never got used to the ligatures and I did switch over ComicCode[1], I still remember that font fondly.

[1]https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by drekipus »

tommica wrote: post #34

FiraCode was my goto for a while, and it really worked well. I'm pretty sure was my first "real" programming font that I chose deliberately. Though I never got used to the ligatures and I did switch over ComicCode[1], I still remember that font fondly. [1] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

Nice, another comic user.

I use comic mono and I absolutely love it.

I like to use Monokai/Molokai and joke with my colleagues that I'm using "clown colours"

Re: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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Post by CJefferson »

jansan wrote: post #16

I do not understand why someone would like to have ligatures in code. And it looks like I am not alone: https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fon...

I'm not sure how I could make you understand I like having ligatures. I find they make my code easier to read, and I enjoy their presence. Some people like vim or emacs, some vscode, some eclipse or full visual studio. I personally like that there are an increasing number of different interface choices for people to use when coding.

Personally, I'd love to do my coding without a mono-spaced font but most of the world keeps space-aligning things, so that's not going to work unfortunately.

Of course, you don't have to use ligatures, no-one is suggesting we make them compulsory

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