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by mrkgnao 3254 days ago
> The problem is that ligature substitution is “dumb” in the sense that it only considers whether certain characters appear in a certain order. It doesn’t have any awareness of the semantic context.

True, which is why Iosevka has language-specific ligatures that a sufficiently smart editor (I think the "JS types", like Atom/VSCode, have CSS for this) can use to ligate (?) intelligently.