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I don’t agree. I find that ligatures in Fira Code make it rather more pleasant to read contrived pieces of JavaScript (I’m looking at you, “===“). But to each h

• jeroenhd 4y ago
  === and !== are definitely the main reason I tried out ligatures in the first place. The author has hidden their point all the way at the end of the article, though. They're mostly talking about sharing code, such as in screenshots, printed works, slides, etc. People who don't know fonts commonly use ligatures (plenty of fonts that mess with fi or other commonly custom kerned characters) so they don't realise I'm not actually using the ≠ or ≥ characters in my code.