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[closed] [help] what font do you use in your code editor/IDE? (self.programming)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by drew_belloc to c/programming

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I'm looking for a good on the eyes font that suport a feel special characters like ç, ã and í. It also need to have a easy difference between 0/O and I/l. Sorry if this is not the best place to ask this.

Edit: thank you everyone for the answers, i will use fira code on my terminal and intel one mono on my text editor.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure I can get behind this one. This is a quote from the write up you linked and while I agree these comments are dumb, a “don’t use this because our font won’t support it or a no it’s the editors that are wrong and should change” approach feel ridiculous.

Sometimes programmers rely on the monospaced grid to create a second column of values or comments on the right side of the page. It’s true, these secondary columns won’t align in a proportionally spaced font. But why are we making these columns in the first place? Even in a monospaced font they can be finnicky and hard to maintain. In virtually every other form of typography, the responsibility of alignment is given to the typesetting application, not the font. If source code editors can highlight syntax, they could also interpret tabs and syntax to create true, adjustable columns of text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha yes agreed! That’s why, for me, it’s an interesting exercise. As someone somewhat into typesetting it forced me to think about type properties that I never really thought about before.