Seriously that has got to be the troll option. Programming with Comic Sans Serif? Horrible horrible people.
I don't really think I have a preference for an exact font, but there are options or preferences that should be included: The font should have serifs (little feet), they don't have to be large or on all the characters. I would prefer it to not have anti-aliasing. It should be fixed width. It should abso-fucking-lutely not have or force the use of ligatures (the fancyassname for that shit that pulls characters together to form symbols and replaces my --> with little arrow symbols), that shit just has to go and die in a fire!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by FakeBeldin on Friday March 02 2018, @03:41PM
I would say: - fixed width - 1 character per width, no ligatures - easy distinction between commonly confused characters (l/I/1/|, o/0/O, ...)
Other than that: "legible" - whatever that means. Serifs: don't care too much I think, maybe slight preference for not. Anti-aliasing: if I can notice it (or the lack of it), then it's bad. But no clue if I have a preference.
I use Comic Sans because it's easier on the eyes, easier to scale down without horrible horrible anti-aliasing, and having variable-width fonts helps me locate a unique part I need, when searching with tools would take more time. I don't even like fixed-width fonts. You're wasting space, a lot of space.
I'll take 4pt comic sans on a 16:10 1980x1020, thank you very much. Well it's not real comic sans, I reprojected some things like spaces and tabs, because those too took up too much space. Do you know what it's like to have 30 floating windows open, and still be productive? I do. But it comes at a severe cost. I can't use package managers for anything non-curses. Modern open-source UI designers would like me to see me claw out my eyes and stroke out from claustrophobia. Firefox's smallest font? 9px. For what reason, Mozilla? For what good reason do you limit me by getting in my way! I've had to build from source my own Firefox-ESR, with font patches, menu patches (resize it all, remove those god awful separators, PUT THE BOOKMARKS BACK IN THE MAIN OPTION MENU, remove the second search bar, remove padding of text, replace buttons with UTF-8 symbols, everything must be smaller!!). Now multiply this for every graphical software you need. The price I pay for productivity.
Even now, after installing Linux again on another machine, I'm just hit with this huge wave of dread "why is the tty so goddamn big?" Designers have cursed us with bloat, but non-designers have cursed us with claustrophobia!
Of course Comic Sans is the troll option. I picked it, because it never occurred to me to have a favorite programming font. But I'm interested to see what other people have picked. If some of them are really better than whatever the default is (no idea what that might be), then - hey - never too old to learn.
Comic sans is the best font for bad programmers. People will be so upset about the choice of font that they'll not notice that it is the least problem with the code. ;-)
-- The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Funny) by looorg on Friday March 02 2018, @02:30PM (12 children)
Seriously that has got to be the troll option. Programming with Comic Sans Serif? Horrible horrible people.
I don't really think I have a preference for an exact font, but there are options or preferences that should be included: The font should have serifs (little feet), they don't have to be large or on all the characters. I would prefer it to not have anti-aliasing. It should be fixed width. It should abso-fucking-lutely not have or force the use of ligatures (the fancyassname for that shit that pulls characters together to form symbols and replaces my --> with little arrow symbols), that shit just has to go and die in a fire!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by FakeBeldin on Friday March 02 2018, @03:41PM
I would say:
- fixed width
- 1 character per width, no ligatures
- easy distinction between commonly confused characters (l/I/1/|, o/0/O, ...)
Other than that: "legible" - whatever that means.
Serifs: don't care too much I think, maybe slight preference for not.
Anti-aliasing: if I can notice it (or the lack of it), then it's bad. But no clue if I have a preference.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Hartree on Friday March 02 2018, @06:56PM
"Horrible horrible people."
Of course I'm a horrible person. I even play Cards Against Humanity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @09:25PM
There's actually an edited version of comic sans floating around that is monospaced.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 03 2018, @01:32AM (3 children)
Wait, San Francisco is not the troll option?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 03 2018, @04:04AM (2 children)
They're all troll options. There's not a single monospace font up there.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by KiloByte on Saturday March 03 2018, @07:59PM (1 child)
Courier New is monospaced.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:03PM
Ah, accidental I'm sure. We were having a good chuckle in IRC the other night thinking up the worst possible choices for the poll.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @09:10PM
A Lowell George fan, I see. But it's spelled "feAt".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:04PM
I use Comic Sans because it's easier on the eyes, easier to scale down without horrible horrible anti-aliasing, and having variable-width fonts helps me locate a unique part I need, when searching with tools would take more time. I don't even like fixed-width fonts. You're wasting space, a lot of space.
I'll take 4pt comic sans on a 16:10 1980x1020, thank you very much. Well it's not real comic sans, I reprojected some things like spaces and tabs, because those too took up too much space. Do you know what it's like to have 30 floating windows open, and still be productive? I do. But it comes at a severe cost. I can't use package managers for anything non-curses. Modern open-source UI designers would like me to see me claw out my eyes and stroke out from claustrophobia. Firefox's smallest font? 9px. For what reason, Mozilla? For what good reason do you limit me by getting in my way! I've had to build from source my own Firefox-ESR, with font patches, menu patches (resize it all, remove those god awful separators, PUT THE BOOKMARKS BACK IN THE MAIN OPTION MENU, remove the second search bar, remove padding of text, replace buttons with UTF-8 symbols, everything must be smaller!!). Now multiply this for every graphical software you need. The price I pay for productivity.
Even now, after installing Linux again on another machine, I'm just hit with this huge wave of dread "why is the tty so goddamn big?" Designers have cursed us with bloat, but non-designers have cursed us with claustrophobia!
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Sunday March 11 2018, @07:50AM
Of course Comic Sans is the troll option. I picked it, because it never occurred to me to have a favorite programming font. But I'm interested to see what other people have picked. If some of them are really better than whatever the default is (no idea what that might be), then - hey - never too old to learn.
Hey, kid, get off may lawn.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @03:20PM
Of course the complete poll is a joke. Everyone knows that programs should use all the fonts side by side:
SCNR :-)
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:47AM
Comic sans is the best font for bad programmers. People will be so upset about the choice of font that they'll not notice that it is the least problem with the code. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.