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I do not understand why someone would like to have ligatures in code. And it looks like I am not alone: https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programmi

• 112233 3y ago
  I do understand why someone would like ligatures, just not not the whatever it is that is imlemented now: - if a ligature looks just like a grapheme of another character, why not use that character? why the replacement is done at font level??? - using ligature across morpheme or token boundary is rude typesetting. e.g "selfish" or "c<int>=1;" Other than that, I do not have anything against ligatures that enhance legibility of text (what they are meant to accomplish)
• hxii 3y ago
  The link you shared aside, I'd be genuinely interested in hearing your own personal opinion why ligatures are bad in coding fonts.
  • jansan 3y ago
    Because it does not add any value, but a lot of potential problems. I can already see it messing with my regular expressions.
  • bmn__ 3y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822644
• CJefferson 3y ago
  I'm not sure how I could make you understand I like having ligatures. I find they make my code easier to read, and I enjoy their presence. Some people like vim or emacs, some vscode, some eclipse or full visual studio. I personally like that there are an increasing number of different interface choices for people to use when coding. Personally, I'd love to do my coding without a mono-spaced font but most of the world keeps space-aligning things, so that's not going to work unfortunately. Of course, you don't have to use ligatures, no-one is suggesting we make them compulsory