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by chrismorgan 2223 days ago
Interesting. I’ll give the thought time to settle and probably disable Poly for all code blocks tomorrow, leaving it on only for inline code. (That’s what I did initially in the design, but then I decided to make normal code blocks Poly as well because I preferred it so, and why not? —But it seems to be disconcerting people.)

Yet one of the things I really like about Poly is how it decreases width. Disabling Poly would slightly harm layout on https://chrismorgan.info/blog/rust-fizzbuzz/ where I have code side-by-side, increasing the width required for the full layout without wrapping from ~1500px to 1600px. Ah well. It’s not critical, just makes me a little bit sad. (Admittedly I could get much of that back with `tab-size: 3;` instead of `tab-size: 4`, but that would doubtless make people baulk too. And I’m not going `tab-size: 2` except on small displays.)

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I'd gently suggest that, while the side-by-side code is a strong with the early for loops, it's not adding much as much value for the longer snippet with the Display impl.