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Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
- 1Ligatures make code hard to readUnreviewed
- 1Ligatures make code hard to readUnreviewed
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Ligatures make code hard to readUnreviewed
20152026- Ligatures never work correctly on Windows 10 despite repeated fresh installs2023-07-19
- Ligatures make code confusing to read2023-07-19
- Ligatures make certain symbol combinations confusing to read on a website2023-07-18
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Ligatures never work correctly on Windows 10 despite repeated fresh installs2023-07-19
- Ligatures make code confusing to read2023-07-19
- Ligatures make certain symbol combinations confusing to read on a website2023-07-18
- Ligatures can make Ruby block syntax confusing and hard to read2021-12-21
- Ligatures look confusing to viewers, so presenters must explain them when shown2020-05-10
- Ligature glyphs look so different from underlying characters that selection becomes confusing2017-07-23
- Ligature widths make single and double equals hard to tell apart2017-04-30
- Placing the cursor correctly to backspace through merged != symbol is annoying2017-04-30
- Ligature glyphs like ~= and =~ render confusingly, with symbols stacked on top of each other2015-12-20