> If you don’t believe me, try it for 10 or 15 years nope, I still haven't ever run into the described issues. but that's not even why I disagree with the auth

> If you don’t believe me, try it for 10 or 15 years nope, I still haven't ever run into the described issues. but that's not even why I disagree with the author. if I _did_ run into an issue, it absolutely wouldn't be the font's problem. this is akin to blaming a crypto algorithm for a security flaw caused by a bad implementation. fonts are software and IDEs can simply provide an option to disable ligatures. and, often, they do: in sublime: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/ligatures.html https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/ligatures.html in vscode: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions in atom: use CSS