They have this many books about programming and none of them is about Haskell or GUI programming? wtf

ok this is cool hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1

@DLosc with julia mono they do

little thin, but acceptable & monospace

ugh

unusable

cascadia code. seems ok

actually I think that was one of the monaspaces, with all the ligatures turned on

@DannyuNDos it's crazy how large "programming" is... How many kinds of software there are. Each with their own set of goals, of constraints, of best practices that are sometimes directly opposed to each other. It's crazy how simply practicing one kind of programming makes humans slowly gain experience in it / specialize their perspective to it / limit their understanding to it, at the expense of all others kinds. Without even realizing it!

This is how we get wildly incompatible views and advice, by programmers unknowingly talking past each other, about seemingly the same topics.

This is also why no, your favorite language is in fact not an entirely adequate substitute to your least favorite language, for all intents and purposes.

I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, inspired to say all that. Heed the wisdom from the bed

ok back to sleep now

@blueberry definitely

@blueberry popularity of the previous statement now has a datum

@DLosc TinyAPL386 has them

damn, the kerning's correct there too

i hope the julia mono guy fixes it lol

i would do it but i have no clue how kerning works

(at a font level)

@blueberry I don't think it's a kerning issue, the thing just doesn't appear in the font

so it gets random kerning by your text renderer