[jonhendry18]

This is true, but terminals tend to be used with monospace fonts that aren't very typographically complex.

That said there may? be languages other than English where ligatures are more than decorative, and would be more useful to have in a terminal.

[bitwize]

I'm saying, maybe the terminals of today need to be more typographically aware, now that the computers of today can more than support it.

[coldtea]

On the list that terminals need to do, being more typographically aware is on the very bottom on my list of priorities.

They could start by not mimicking 50+ year old hardware terminals down to arcane (and performance killing) details, supporting better and more powerful autocomplete and similar interactions, inline images, full colors, and so on...

[gnachman]

It’s important to some people but probably not a majority. Ligatures are a best effort kind of thing. Where trade offs must be made, such as drawing performance, I choose to let the user make that choice.