I don't think the idea behind ligatures is all bad, but I think font is just not the best layer to implement the concept. What I really would want to see more o

I don't think the idea behind ligatures is all bad, but I think font is just not the best layer to implement the concept. What I really would want to see more of is fully typeset code. Fortress had the ability to typeset code with TeX, but that was afaik not editable. Something in that vein would be great imho. The community being so fixated on monospaced fonts is imho holding code readability back a lot.