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I guess I'm not alone in this, because in the Fira Code repo there's this commit from 2 months ago: "Remove [] ligature from specimen".
> Picking a programming font is like picking a religion. No matter what you pick someone will say you're wrong. Most people will agree at least that monospaced fonts are ideal for reading code and that both of you who use proportionally spaces fonts are destined for hell, or at the very least, purgatory. I guess I'm destined for hell or purgatory then. Hanselman is not alone. I had the CEO of one company look over my…
> Picking a programming font is like picking a religion. No matter what you pick someone will say you're wrong. Most people will agree at least that monospaced fonts are ideal for reading code and that both of you who use proportionally spaces fonts are destined for hell, or at the very least, purgatory. I guess I'm destined for hell or purgatory then. Hanselman is not alone. I had the CEO of one company look over my…
Great answer, thanks for that insight! (I was just joshing!)
I know, and I apologize for hinting that you of all people may have lacked intellectual curiosity! That comment was really directed toward the former CEO of mine... :-)
Actually I'm glad you put in that little joshing swipe against us proportionalites, as it gave me an excuse to have some fun exploring the topic.
Apparently I'm one of the two users of proportionality spaced fonts for coding. I've used this now for five years and I don't understand why developers still see this need to code as if monospaced terminals is all that's available. Especially on large screens with high dpi it reads much faster. It also makes it less awkward to use editor unicode substitution for display purposes.
What I would like is a language-aware editor that can visually align assignments, parameters, etc. without touching the actual whitespace characters. You get 1 tab for indentation (if the language allows tabs) and 1 space for alignment, and the editor takes care of the rest. The raw text would still be readable enough and use fewer bytes for people who prefer to code in a monospace terminal over SSH over an acoustic coupler from a phone booth in rural Texas.
> Picking a programming font is like picking a religion. No matter what you pick someone will say you're wrong. Most people will agree at least that monospaced fonts are ideal for reading code and that both of you who use proportionally spaces fonts are destined for hell, or at the very least, purgatory. I guess I'm destined for hell or purgatory then. Hanselman is not alone. I had the CEO of one company look over my…
But that's basically hardcoded tabular data, and should really be solved by an editor with proper tab-stops. Not by abusing the monospaceivity and spaces for alignment.
> Picking a programming font is like picking a religion. No matter what you pick someone will say you're wrong. Most people will agree at least that monospaced fonts are ideal for reading code and that both of you who use proportionally spaces fonts are destined for hell, or at the very least, purgatory. I guess I'm destined for hell or purgatory then. Hanselman is not alone. I had the CEO of one company look over my…
> Picking a programming font is like picking a religion. No matter what you pick someone will say you're wrong. Most people will agree at least that monospaced fonts are ideal for reading code and that both of you who use proportionally spaces fonts are destined for hell, or at the very least, purgatory. I guess I'm destined for hell or purgatory then. Hanselman is not alone. I had the CEO of one company look over my…
To each their own. Personally I dislike nested function calls in general and would use intermediate variables with descriptive names. var calculatedOne = andthisCalculatedOne(anArgumentThatMeansSomething, anotherWordyName); myFunctionThatDoesStuff(someArgument, calculatedOne); Edit: That "anotherWordyName" is supposed to be column justified, HN really needs tags instead of this indentation nonsense. The extra vertica…
Oh, I agree completely that step-by-step is often more readable than deep nesting.
OTOH, your example is a good illustration of the problems with column indentation. If it hadn't been HN's goofy code formatting that messed you up, it would have been some code refactoring that changed the length of one of those variable or function names.
Ligatures are great, but I just love the cursive italics used by Operator Mono. Haven't justified the price to myself yet, but am considering it since I haven't been able to find any other fonts that do cursive italics.
Fira Code looks really nice. Shame Sublime Text doesn't support ligatures. Seems to be the most voted for idea for development: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/forums/1-general/
This is a deeply personal choice, I feel. I am not a fan of using ligatures in programming code as it gives some abiguity around how many characters are in a given ligature. To each his/her own, I guess.
Does it? In monospaced fonts, you can use width to know how many characters are in a ligature.
For instance, in the examples from the article, the == and -> ligatures in particular look like something I might not always see as two characters.