I make less errors and find errors more readily with ligatures on. The instant I saw them on my coworker's machine, I had installed Fira and enabled ligatures i

I make less errors and find errors more readily with ligatures on. The instant I saw them on my coworker's machine, I had installed Fira and enabled ligatures in Jetbrains. I have ADHD and I'm a highly visual person. I love ligatures, emojis, and any CLI tool that "makes my terminal look like a disco" (to quote a different coworker). I'm sure it's a highly personal thing, but Matthew Butterick proclaims it's more universally bad than it actually is. That is why there's a checkbox for enabling ligatures. Like why is this a thing? It's like proclaiming certain font sizes aren't worth it. My dev machine is my interface. I should be able to do what I like with it. Edit: I guess he addresses this in a footnote, but hardly: > “What do you mean, it’s not a matter of taste? I like using ligatures when I code.” Great! In so many ways, I don’t care what you do in private. Although I predict you will eventually burn yourself on this hot mess, my main concern is typography that faces other human beings. A) I've never burned myself b) other than screen shares (again, nary a complaint, but several "cool! How do I get that?") I'm never rendering code for others to consume. I agree that a ligatured font would be bad e.g. for publishing code in a whitepaper.