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Let’s be realistic. You don’t have learn or retrain your brain to understand Fira Code. Symbols are all the same, they just look better.

The difference between e.g. -> and --> is a length of a small solid line. To me that's equates to a huge drop in readability, countering the easy to brain-parse argument.

Agree, but no language uses both -> and -->

Nope. Fira gets semiotics subtly wrong.

For instance, the HTML comment bookends. In Fira, they are long arrows. In plain ASCII they are enclosing brackets connecting to comment.

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