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What do you want out of a coding monospace font? (piefed.social)

submitted 9 hours ago by one_old_coder@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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Source from HN because they have shadowbans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773594

I'm wondering too what you are looking for in a font. Good looks, features, options to enable or disable, ligatures?

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Connected strokes in italic style, vivify your code.

That's cool and interesting (you can see it in action and toggle-compare on the linked website)

I wonder how distracting it would be in code, though. If it is, their configurability allows skipping that feature though, which is great.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Yea, as its only applied to italics its less distracting than it might seem at first. Your IDE may not even use italics. In VSCode with my theme, italics are used for comments and variable names, which looks like this: