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It wasn’t, for me, trying Fira and other ligatured fonts. The cognitive overload was too much, for no clear (again to me) benefit. I love well crafted typefaces

• WorldMaker 5y ago
  It's a subtle clue still, but you pick up on it more and more with use, especially after cursoring through/deleting past the ligatures enough. It eventually becomes second nature. Of course, there's no reason to pick up those subtle clues/habits if you don't see a benefit to the ligatures in the first place. The benefits themselves are sometimes subtle, and I'm unlikely to convince you if you've already made up your mind on that. For what it is worth, I find that they improve readability (and per the Python maxim: code is read way more often than it is written), and they do catch subtle bugs sometimes. As one example, in Fira Code (and successors), the difference between the ligatures of == and === are quite noticeable and useful in JS programming. But yeah, mostly it's just for cleaner reading: math symbols and pretty arrows. If that doesn't appeal to you, it doesn't appeal to you.