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		arnsholt 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Getting syntax highlighting wrong After a couple of years working in Smalltalk, I’ve acquired the hot take that all the code should be in a proportional font. Admittedly it doesn’t work quite as well for brace syntax languages, but in Smalltalk and Python it’s great.

wizzwizz4 6 months ago | [–]

It works better if you're using Elastic Tabstops.

Mikhail_Edoshin 6 months ago | [–]

This means all code should be prose and lose subtle spatial arrangements that are easy to add with monospace.

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