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It takes special effort to configure a variable width font in a code editor. I have to wonder if they do this to troll observant people like you :p

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It takes zero effort in IntelliJ (pictured above).

I remember reading a suggestion about proportional fonts in a discussion on HN about code editor preferences. Switched to them several years ago and never looked back.

I can see the appeal, so long as characters like l1I are distinguishable, and indentation was done well.

It probably ties into the whole tabs vs whitespace thread ...

They chose to side with tabs to troll the programmers who know what they are talking about?

Preferring tabs to spaces makes sense when you're using variable width fonts?

Yes. Unless your editor happens to do some really nice formatting.

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