Code of Sauron
Better start now, the US might need a new one soon. /s
A smart contract as the declaration of independence would be awesome though.
Is there some language or “syntax formatter” that turns source code into something more off a visual programming language? Like a WYSIWYG markdown editor.
Like python doesn’t have curly braces, but you could add some kind of “block illustration”.
Or you could have illuminated initials for variable names to make them more unique.
So IDE with syntax highlights? Those blocks things are also pretty much shown in most IDE, what do you use to code?
I even have prettifying turned on so the keywords like
in,lambda, etc are prettified.
See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can’t force people to read it in this font.
Of course you can. Instead of committing the code to a repository, you just take screenshots of the everything and commit that instead.
Settle down Satan.
And then you program a runtime that calls an AI to parse images and execute your code in real-time!
Yes. The “problem”.
You can if you paste it into a write protected pdf
The only real way to write protect it is by printing the pdf into pdf (making it a pdf of an image).
I wonder if this font would screw up ocr?
Unless the OCR were made for this font, probably yes.
Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click “trust this project”.
Just add it for VSCode and Jetbrains and you cover like 75-95% of devs
Iosevka, a variant with slashed zero.
I use Comic Code. It’s not free, but it’s so whimsical.
For the curious, here is a similar but free font. https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
JetBrains Mono to the top!
I really em want to makenit a reality, do anyone here know a 17th century antique monosace font?
IBM Mono Plex >>> all other, especially this horrible mess
I… Somehow just realized that I can of course change my editor font. After three years in professional software dev.
Any recommendations for maximizing readability?
I picked up a great little test along the way: type the word ill or illegal followed by 100, using a capital I in illegal and mixing an upper case O and a zero in the number.
Ill10O
Can you clearly tell all these characters apart in your editor font?
I am all about Fira Code, myself
I unironically love comic sans derivatives, they’re just super readable to me
Comic sans was invented for legibility on CRT screens, and its considered good for younger people to learn the iconography of various Latin characters.
Its just misused since it was standard in Windows and Apple’s OS X, and used in situations that aren’t meant for such a typeface. It’s perfectly good for what it was invented for, its just often incorrectly used by designers who don’t really know how to design well.
Comic sans can help a lot of people with dyslexia.
Comic sans is a great typeface in my opinion. Just often misused.
Look up a good article on coding fonts and pick your camp! At the moment I have DejaVu installed but I’m not a purist. As long as it’s properly designed for this I’m happy. Ligatures are particularly nifty in some languages but no big deal. I recall one author picking a font so that the italics would be cursive rather than monospace, so that his comments would look like handwritten notes in the margin, but I never got a chance to try it myself. Looked great though!
Fira Code is my go-to.
I guess it depends on your preference but I love Fira Code
I use it as well
Is there any other font that has that variety of ligatures?
Try JetBrains Mono.
I’m a big fan of GoHuFont
Verdana.
The I/l and O/o/0, 0/8/ø are all distinct, so are all the different kinds of brackets. Also, this isn’t a monospace font, so wide letters such as m and w are wide, instead of being squashed into an unreadable barcode.
Letters aren’t meant to be monospace, and sans TUI nothing in computers still needs to be.
If you do need one, ex. for TUI, I second JetBrains Mono!
Also, Verdana is not a libre font, Noto Sans is a libre font that also has these properties, although code does look much better in Verdana to me.
Also, this isn’t a monospace font
Oh no.
You wouldn’t want mono space in languages where indentation matters?
Nope, indentation is still the same.
For example eight spaces are going to be twice as big as four spaces in just about any font, and Verdana still accodomodates well to this with its wide spaces.
Big fan of jetbrains mono.
It’s a bit vanilla but I like DejaVu Sans Mono 8pt in my terminal, which is where I edit scripts and things
Curiously, I don’t think that looks quite as good at larger sizes, so I’ve been using Liberation Mono 9pt or 10pt elsewhere.
Both of those have distinct glyphs for the usual easily confused candidates. Can’t be having my lowercase L’s and 1s looking similar.
i always use the classic 6x13 or 8x16 font
I just use IBM Plex, but that’s mostly because the keycaps my keyboard came with used it :) I also think it’s just fine for readability (i.e. I/l and O/0 are different enough)
SideShowBobUUUUGH.wav
std::string independence;
Putting the “no” in zapfino
reduce the flourishes and/or add more spacing between lines and it would be a lot more readable.
In this case it’s because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk’s servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)
Yes, but he could’ve copy pasted the title.
You could’ve changed the main title to something like “programming the declaration of independence” or “programming like it’s 1750”
He mocks op. The gag is not the font anymore.
True but I think showing the quoted tweet is better than just in the title cause it is part of the joke in the image.
Title is normally used as a reaction or just simple text with some reference to the image
I still think this format sucks because the punchline comes first.
Cause I
repostedstole it from some other internet pageI just usually download the image than a screenshot when posting
