[wedn3sday]

This seems fairly cool, and I appreciate the write up, but god I hate it so much when people write code samples that try and be fancy and use non-code-characters in their code samples. Clarity is much more important then aesthetics when it comes to code examples, if Im trying to understand something I've never seen before, having a bunch of extra non-existant symbols does not help.

[DHowett]

I’m guessing that you are referring to the “coding ligatures” in the author’s font selection for code blocks?

You can likely configure your user agent to ignore site-specified fonts.

[loh]

Are you referring to the `!==` and `=>` in their code being converted to what appears to be a single symbol?

Upon further inspection, it looks like the actual code on the page is `!==` and `=>` but the font ("Fira Code") seems to be somehow converting those sequences of characters into a single symbol, which is actually still the same number of characters but joined to appear as a single one. I had no idea fonts could do that.

[red_trumpet]

That's called a ligature[1], and clasically used for joining for example ff or fi into more readable symbols.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)

[Rebelgecko]

Which characters, the funky '≠'? I've seen those pop up a few other times recently, which makes me wonder if there's some editor extension that just came out that maps != and !==

[roywiggins]

They're ligatures.

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

[asiachick]

Agreed. I use them in my editor but I ban them from my blog posts. They aren't helpful to others