Excellent tips, thanks! I've gone back through my VS Code settings and switched to a few of these.
I'm odd, though; I'm so used to working without ligatures. Even if you skim through some of my old lecture notes from college (yes, still have those years later), you'll see a lot of programming notation...even from psych class! So, I'll probably skip that for now. I know some people who'd be interested in ligatures, however, especially since Hack is available in that form (thanks @goyo
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I'd say everyone is used to it. It's a very new idea to combine monospace and ligatures. I wouldn't say they are crazy helpful, certainly not to the extent syntax highlighting is, but I found that they're not at all distracting (I avoid Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, a popular plugin that helps many, because it distracts me).
It makes sense mentally, since there's no reason operators need to have gaps in them. And visually the space between the operator and the identifiers increases, without wasting extra width.
Not once did I have a "how do I type that symbol" question in my head.
To sum it up, it was a cultural shock at the beginning, but I don't think it impacted my productivity even then.
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Excellent tips, thanks! I've gone back through my VS Code settings and switched to a few of these.
I'm odd, though; I'm so used to working without ligatures. Even if you skim through some of my old lecture notes from college (yes, still have those years later), you'll see a lot of programming notation...even from psych class! So, I'll probably skip that for now. I know some people who'd be interested in ligatures, however, especially since Hack is available in that form (thanks @goyo !)
I'd say everyone is used to it. It's a very new idea to combine monospace and ligatures. I wouldn't say they are crazy helpful, certainly not to the extent syntax highlighting is, but I found that they're not at all distracting (I avoid Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, a popular plugin that helps many, because it distracts me).
It makes sense mentally, since there's no reason operators need to have gaps in them. And visually the space between the operator and the identifiers increases, without wasting extra width.
Not once did I have a "how do I type that symbol" question in my head.
To sum it up, it was a cultural shock at the beginning, but I don't think it impacted my productivity even then.