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 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