[bengoodger]

It takes special effort to configure a variable width font in a code editor. I have to wonder if they do this to troll observant people like you :p

[woobar]

It takes zero effort in IntelliJ (pictured above).

I remember reading a suggestion about proportional fonts in a discussion on HN about code editor preferences. Switched to them several years ago and never looked back.

[thomastjeffery]

I can see the appeal, so long as characters like l1I are distinguishable, and indentation was done well.

[rusk]

It probably ties into the whole tabs vs whitespace thread ...

[dmix]

They chose to side with tabs to troll the programmers who know what they are talking about?

[rusk]

Preferring tabs to spaces makes sense when you're using variable width fonts?

[thomastjeffery]

Yes. Unless your editor happens to do some really nice formatting.