Serif Font Is Better for Coding

For a while I wondered why titles I set in serif fonts looked bad and then noticed that serif fonts seemed to be out of style in general.

Then I read a book that was set in an old version of Palatino where the serifs seemed to be making love to the curves of the letters around them and realized the problem was that most tools (Microsoft Powerpoint and Adobe Illustrator) don't do proper automatic kerning... Somebody must have gotten a patent that makes good kerning illegal. Now I manually kern serif titles and love the results but the experience makes me skeptical of serif fonts in a monospace context.