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I've tried ligatures in coding for a few months but eventually decided against them. The small parsing overhead isn't worth it just for beauty. The philosophy o

• booi 3y ago
  For me ligatures improve readability which surprised me after two decades of not having them. I think it’s because operators like != are actually considered a singular symbol not two characters. We just don’t have that many available keys so we use multiple characters. But in my mind it’s a single symbol and ligatures go a long way to help my brain parse it that way
• pie_flavor 3y ago
  The whole point is that there's less overhead to parsing a two- or three-character operator as a single thing if it looks like a single thing.