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Thank you for providing this insight -- I'm one of the seemingly rare few who hates ligatures in my Latin-script fonts, and when I saw this submission my brain
by wcarss 9y ago
Thank you for providing this insight -- I'm one of the seemingly rare few who hates ligatures in my Latin-script fonts, and when I saw this submission my brain leapt to "augh, why!?" -- you've given at least one very clear use-case where ligature support is valuable, which I was totally unaware of.
- trumpeta 9y agoThe cool thing about ligatures is that they are a property of the font, not of the text, so I can have a font with ligatures and you can have one without.
- inferiorhuman 9y agoThis was the most recent blurb on HN I've seen about fonts with ligatures for coding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821446 I've mixed feelings about the idea, but generally seem to like the combination of Atom and Fira Code.
- drivingmenuts 9y agoI've been using Fira Code for a while and having ligatures does make code a bit easier for me to read. I certainly could live without the feature, but if it's there, I'm going to turn it on. Which, ultimately, is what matters. You actually have to turn it on in Jetbrain's editors. It's a decent "no harm, no foul" feature.
- computerex 9y agoI tried to get ligatures to work in gvim for so long because Fira Code looks wonderful with ligatures. Could not make it work :(