I've never used ligatures like this, and I have no horse in this race, but I don't find these arguments compelling. 1. By this reasoning, Unicode contradicts i

I've never used ligatures like this, and I have no horse in this race, but I don't find these arguments compelling. 1. By this reasoning, Unicode contradicts itself. There's lots of codepoints that I can't visually distinguish from one another, even when printed without ligatures. If the quality of visual uniqueness is important, better stick to printable ASCII. 2. Every syntax-highlighter I've ever used, for any language more complex than a Lisp, has been wrong, occasionally. Every IDE "find text" feature finds useless results, occasionally, from lack of context, too. Again, if perfection is your threshold for use, you're going to have to throw out half your editor. If you want to go all Marie Kondo on your toolchain (like Chuck Moore has been doing for decades), that's neat, but that doesn't sound like what he's advocating here. > If you don’t believe me, try it for 10 or 15 years. Every time a programmer tells me this, and I ask around, I find that the population is split. Seriously, you don't believe me that emacs is 1000 times better than vi? Try it for a few years.