Your timeline is straight up fucked. In short, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Imagine you are driving the bed

actually quite enjoyable, ty!

While I respect your choice to make things more ‘beautiful’ in your editor, I do not think we should ever do this by default.

It might seem nice visually, but suddenly we are not seeing things exactly as the compiler does. And as someone who has spent a lot of time helping folks debug their code, I feel quite strongly that this is just further obfuscating an already challenging field - for superficial gains.

No idea what held in is, but I live in vim, and … no ligatures, thanks. Same with italics. Ligatures with fixed-width fonts make no sense. I especially hate the combined arrow symbols: why draw attention to something so unimportant?

I appreciate them in print, but do not ever want to see them in my terminal.

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It could be the same.

There’s no good reason to be using :80 even internally.

I get it, but you’re arguing in favour of negligent IT. If nobody dares to touch something, it is a liability.

using a rly bad word but pretending not to is kinda weird