Comment on Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligaturesparentComments−tonsky10yLet’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.−lttlrck10yThe 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.−tonsky10yAgree, but no language uses both -> and -->−Terretta10yNope. 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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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.