What is the most meaningless, silly, un-important programming-related opinion that you'll just continue to defend?
We're all familiar with Tabs vs. Spaces...
But what are some other pointless fights that you're always willing to fight about?
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Fonts designed for programming should have ligature support, and all IDEs should support ligatures.
Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures
Problem
Programmers use a lot of symbols, often encoded with several characters. For the human brain, sequences like
->,<=or:=are single logical tokens, even if they take two or three characters on the screen. Your eye spends a non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one. Ideally, all programming languages should be designed with full-fledged Unicode symbols for operators, but thatβs not the case yet.Solution
Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like
..or//, ligatures allow us to correct spacing.Download & Install
Then:
Support
Fira Code is aβ¦
I just found out RStudio doesn't support ligatures on Linux, and now I HAVE to decide if I'm going to compromise my IDE or my OS.
Note that Mr. Withayasakpunt used the word "safer," not "more secure."
I have many times lived the difference.
I read on Twitter earlier this week that it is Xcode. Not XCode, xCode, X-Code, 10-code, etc. and it is definitely not iWatch. IOS and macos are also out too.
There are two things the python formatter
blackdoes that I hate, and that makes me not want to use it at all.Yes, the same goal can be achieved with plain CSS stylesheets + JS, but I don't see why that makes styled-components garbage. I suppose it comes down to preference for minor improvements with one option for styling over another.
When naming variables, snake_case is better than camelCase
Java's habit of having super long function and variable names. Yuck! :D
Functional JavaScript is better than typescript.
You should be using class names on your DOM elements to help people navigate the code base whether you style them or not, preferably BEM syntax.
Emotion and other libraries that try to just sell me into writing inline styles again can die a slow death.
What makes
styled-componentsgarbage?