Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

Post by _V_ » Sat, May 13, 2023, 11:03 AM UTC

sundarurfriend wrote: post #71

_V_ wrote: post #69

A page that does not load any content with disabled JavaScript: hell no I mean am I the only one that is browsing with completely disabled JS by default? :-D More and more sites don't load anything withnout a JS and I'm not talking about advanced apps like Microsoft Office online...

There are dozens of us! Dozens! But it's sadly true that more and more pages don't load anything if you have JS disabled. Often, the answer to "is this worth disabling JS for" is no.

Post by throwawaymaths » Sat, May 13, 2023, 11:09 AM UTC

toastal wrote: post #58

throwawaymaths wrote: post #47

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> slides or blog posts or anything meant for a broad audience. Or if you're screensharing while pairing, or if a coworker is looking over your shoulder when you're sharing something, or...

TBH, remote pairing in my experience is best done with a tool like upterm or tmate so the user can bring their own terminal toolbox (fonts, colors, settings) and it saves a lot of bandwidth too while remaining crisp, especially when text becomes compressed and hard to read.

Post by hakre » Sat, May 13, 2023, 11:11 AM UTC

teo_zero wrote: post #49

hakre wrote: post #28

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Just was wondering if today anyone is still using them, so I guess that does not need to be asked. All right, oh my captain, keep the indents and spacing tight on the monospace and sail along! Btw., anyone still using monospaced fonts in their editors?

> anyone still using monospaced fonts in their editors? The question is aren't you?

Post by hakre » Sat, May 13, 2023, 11:15 AM UTC

loup-vaillant wrote: post #84

hakre wrote: post #28

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Just was wondering if today anyone is still using them, so I guess that does not need to be asked. All right, oh my captain, keep the indents and spacing tight on the monospace and sail along! Btw., anyone still using monospaced fonts in their editors?

> Btw., anyone still using monospaced fonts in their editors? Tell me you've never programmed without telling me you've never programmed… Almost all code editors and IDEs in current use are set with a monospaced font by default, and the overwhelming majority of programmers keep it that way.

Post by hakre » Sat, May 13, 2023, 11:20 AM UTC

3836293648 wrote: post #82

ketzu wrote: post #39

> if you’re preparing your code for others to read—whether on screen or on paper—skip the ligatures. The article should have led with this. Instead this main caveat is buried in a paragraph, where it is preceded by, what boils down to, "do what you want, but you will recognize its wrong someday." Of course people will focus on that part and on the most prevalent use of ligatures in programming: In their own local edi…

You don't even have to go as far as a triangle. There are two sets of the latin alphabet in unicode and two sets of the greek. The normal one and the maths one. And the mu on your keyboard is not the same on a windows machine and a linux machine. (Alt Gr + m, at least in my language)