Some of these ideas are implemented in fonts like Fira Code https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/ and Hasklig https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig e.g. typing => gives ⇒
Both should be well known to HN readers.
Both should be well known to HN readers.
It isn't free, but it is very well designed and appeals to my sense of aesthetic. Well worth the money.
It's kind of surprising to me that in this day and age of 4k monitors with crazy large dpi that Condensed is still a selling point for code fonts. As cool as a matrix green screen full of inscrutable characters looks in film, we've got modern tools to organize and navigate source files and can actually afford whitespace these days. We no longer have to optimize for volumes of code per screen and most of us are no longer paid by line of code, we can work smarter than that.