Sometimes I feel like the only person who absolutely does not want ligatures in my programming font. I much prefer seeing exactly the characters I typed. I don't want to risk reading something wrong because a ligature changed what I expected to see.
Nah you're not alone. I love ligatures but I don't like them in my code. Some things in Fira Code are nice (like the multiplication × for hexadecimals) but it would be nice to have that while switching off the ligatures.
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Yeah, ligatures are terrible for readability and im pretty sure its just a fad for cool kids that like to spend way too much time configuring things just to look different. ;)
I get this exact feeling when I switch between JavaScript & MarkDown files.
In JavaScript, ligaturized arrows give me an instant feedback that my code is correct. But in a MarkDown file, I'd like to see what's shown to other people.
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Sometimes I feel like the only person who absolutely does not want ligatures in my programming font. I much prefer seeing
exactlythe characters I typed. I don't want to risk reading something wrong because a ligature changed what I expected to see.Nah you're not alone. I love ligatures but I don't like them in my code. Some things in Fira Code are nice (like the multiplication × for hexadecimals) but it would be nice to have that while switching off the ligatures.
Hear hear!
You are not alone Tom. It's a matter for preference for me.
Same
Same, but TBF after decades of reading code without ligatures I'm pretty accustomed to equating
!=with≠.You're not alone :D
I agree exactly. I'd rather see what I typed.
I'm intrigued.
How long did you give it, and what languages?
Yeah, ligatures are terrible for readability and im pretty sure its just a fad for cool kids that like to spend way too much time configuring things just to look different. ;)
I get this exact feeling when I switch between JavaScript & MarkDown files.
In JavaScript, ligaturized arrows give me an instant feedback that my code is correct. But in a MarkDown file, I'd like to see what's shown to other people.