Opinions on code ligatures? Do you use them? Why (not)?

I never used them because I always thought the are kinda gimmicky and just hide the actual characters. I plan to use Fire Code though so my opinion might change

They look good in documentation, but I'd rather avoid them in my editor for the reasons @12bitfloat mentioned.

They look really good for operator heavy languages like Haskell

U. G. L. Y.

Love them. They usually make characters clearer to read for me. But I only really like the ones that replace character combinations with characters that have the same meaning (like <= turning into ≤), the ones that just "fancify" character combinations like "/=" or ">>=" look terrible to me.
I could see them become annoying when too many non trivial one's start appearing.

For me it just complicates things, makes hard sometimes to visually distinguish characters. Beside that, I remember once I copy pasted some code from some site, it needed a lot of corrections to work in my editor.

They're beautiful, but kinda suck for aligning.
I have mixed feelings.

@12bitfloat it won't. I suspect you will find them nice to look at but not all that useful

@AleCx04 Yup, I just tried it and you're exactly right. It's actually quite annoying having characters change form completely

@Bokva that's not a font ligature then. Font ligatures are just a different way of rendering characters depending on the surrounding characters. If you copy it you still copy two or three separate characters.

I love them, cant work without them anymore.

My life has not been the same since I found firacode, but it is strictly used in an editor.

There's something about it that's just easy to read, and confuse any untrained eyes on the matter 😅

Yes! I can work with or without them. They're not a necessity but I do miss them when I don't have them

Until
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/comm... was announced, I didn’t know there was such a thing. Other than the autocomplete that Word does.

@bkwilliams the autocomplete of word changes characters though. This is just conditional rendering