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Pros
Pro Many ligatures supported
Quite a few compared to some of the other fonts that support ligatures.
Pro Characters look really nice
Some characters that look odd in other monospace fonts look very nice in Fira Code: @, a, lower-case-L, Q, j, and *.
Pro Works in any editor that supports ligatures
Such as JetBrains, Visual Studio, Visual Code, and Linqpad.
Pro Has ligatures
This is particularly beneficial for those who wish to use combined letters such as "æ" and other diphthongs. But when it comes to programming, the ability to scan through your code is improved with ligatures for equality, arrow functions, and more.
Pro Installs easily on Mac
Many ligature fonts on Github aren't "mac ready". This font comes pre-compiled and ready to install on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Pro Language-agnostic
Does not implement ligatures for character combinations that do different things in different languages.
For example, a Haskell specific ligature for /= is to combine the characters into ≠because in Haskell it means inequality, however this would be confusing in C as C treats /= as divide and assign.
(Note: Also listed as a CON because this means that ligatures that some people may want will never be implemented.)
Cons
Con Lowercase 'r' looks off
The r is the only character with serifs and makes it look out of place and distracting.
However, there is a 'stylistic set' that changes this behaviour (the ss01 option).
Con The '@' Symbol is asymmetric
It's a style, but it would be nice if it would wrap and not just cover the top.
Con Some ligatures will never be implemented
Because FiraCode aims to be language-agnostic, character combinations that perform different actions in different languages are not implemented. One such character combination is /= that is an inequality operator in languages like Erlang and Haskell, while it means divide and assign in C.
(Note: Also listed as a PRO because seeing ≠in a C program where you're dividing and assigning could be confusing.)
Con Ligatures are nice-looking but harm clarity
Even though the font combines characters into ligatures, you still need to type the normal characters, and the ligatures make that difficult in many cases.
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