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I definitely do not enjoy the font choice in your first link. The Go font has been pretty good for me. My editor is configured to use "Go" (not "Go Mono"), I don't even notice when I switch from editing prose to editing code.

"Distinguishing similar characters" is just as much of a concern for me when I'm editing technical documentation as when I'm editing source code. Once again, the Go font has served me well. Previously I used some other humanist style font from from the Ubuntu people that had that classic IBM slash-through zero. Some fonts have overly-aggressive ligatures and such, but those fonts should not be used in any technical context, source code is not special.

Alignment is a non-issue because wanting alignment is bad. There, solved that ;-) Arbitrary diff noise over multiple lines because you added one line at the end is a problem, not a goal!

I interact with other programmers just fine. Your linked article seems to be re-engaging in the tabs-vs-spaces flamewar in an era of gofmt rustfmt et al. It's a total non-issue.

Give it two weeks.