I think one thing you are running into here in the HN comments is that ligatures as they relate to source code editing can be somewhat controversial among devel

I think one thing you are running into here in the HN comments is that ligatures as they relate to source code editing can be somewhat controversial among developers who are especially vocal about their preferences. Some people believe that ligatures make source code more readable. Even, perhaps, beautiful or "comfy." Others feel that past a certain point, programming font choice doesn't really matter much and that too much time spent sharpening the saw means you never get around to cutting the wood. Or that hiding two physical symbols behind a single logical one for the sake of aesthetics is somewhere between pointless and dishonest. Still others are of the opinion that we wouldn't need ligatures at all if programming languages understood Unicode. The other problem of course being that most of us don't have Unicode keyboards. Your project seems to have somehow managed to upset all three camps and for that, I salute you and have starred your project on GitHub.