[the-pellmeister]

> ... my main con­cern is ty­pog­ra­phy that faces other hu­man be­ings. So if you’re prepar­ing your code for oth­ers to read—whether on screen or on pa­per—skip the lig­a­tures.

With all due respect, am I the only one expecting a strong argument for why ligatures on my own personal machine's terminal emulator should go?

I think "code for others to read" having to be free of ligatures was never in dispute at all. Unfortunately, the most significant reason isn't even mentioned: people's lack of awareness of the existence of programmer font ligatures. In clear terms: a confusion between != and ≠ does NOT exist for people who don't know of the existence of ligatures: they'll straight up believe they're looking at a ≠. (* if not slightly put off by the spacing around the character).

The one thing I did take away from this, is that people using Polacode/CodeSnap and the likes, should probably be aware to disable ligatures before exporting their pictures.