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What language are you using such that inter-line relative column spacing doesn't affect your code comprehension?

> I don't see the point in a monospace font outside of the terminal

Why not use Verdana in the terminal?

I'm confused. In every modern language I've used apart from go and terraform, only leading indentation matters and autoformatters do not apply mid-line alignment or align subsequent lines against characters in a previous line.

edit: and maybe Haskell? the layout rules are complicated

personally I don't think lining up e.g. variable or parameter names in c style declarations improves readability at all, and it pollutes git diffs.

but I do use a monospace font in the terminal because many command line applications align their output into columns using spaces.

Good point, it is usually the leading indentation that matters most. I guess since I use Clojure mostly, I like to be able to line up pairs in a map, or a let binding. This could potentially be achieved with tabs, but I'm a spaces guy so I think variable-spaced fonts would be problematic.

> but I do use a monospace font in the terminal because many command line applications align their output into columns using spaces

Ah, makes sense.

Wouldn’t work well for ls -l.

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