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> come on, who on earth did think this is a good idea???

Me. It’s the 21th century. It’s bad enough I have to use monospaced fonts because people can’t properly tabulate. I will at least have proper symbols rather than weird combination of glyphes.




I too want proper symbols, but not ASCII approximations disguised by inconsistent ligatures.


Writing my previous comment, it suddenly downed on me that I could actually be using a proportional font with ligatures and things would look even better. I need to try.


You don't have to use a monospace font to write code.




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