FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

Post by gioazzi » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:16 PM UTC

jhot wrote: post #59

wlkr wrote: post #7

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/

I'm having trouble finding it now, but at one point I used a tool that put monospace fonts head to head (without revealing their name) and you would choose what you thought looked best. Jetbrains mono was my winner and I've been using it ever since.

Post by adamch » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:18 PM UTC

Post by lost_tourist » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:32 PM UTC

Joeri wrote: post #47

_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…

I love it, wouldn’t want to program without it. The small quirks in editing are vastly outweighed by the improved readability of the code. Luckily we can each have our own way and still work on the same code.

Post by kevincox » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:34 PM UTC

jnrk wrote: post #61

_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…

I agree. I respect that people use it, but it's really not for me. It makes the code harder to read IMO

Post by Gordonjcp » Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 1:36 PM UTC

deadbeeves wrote: post #66

sgarland wrote: post #63

This is a stretch: > Your eye spends a non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one. I don’t know how many calories are expended by the brain to perform this, but it has to be near-negligible. I am _extremely_ used to seeing characters as they are in ASCII, and retraining myself for some infinitesimal savings in visual processing seems like a net negative. Maybe this…

I'm pretty sure the eye spends exactly zero Joules on interpretation of visual stimuli. As for the brain, the brain doesn't see characters at the perceptual level, that it then needs to join at the cognitive level into tokens. At the perceptual level it just sees shapes. Whether it takes more energy to parse != or ≠ is something I don't anyone has ever researched.