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		hxii on July 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming li... The link you shared aside, I'd be genuinely interested in hearing your own personal opinion why ligatures are bad in coding fonts.

bmn__ on July 19, 2023 | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822644

jansan on July 19, 2023 | [–]

Because it does not add any value, but a lot of potential problems. I can already see it messing with my regular expressions.

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