Fantasque Sans Mono is similar in spirit and works great for coding too IMHO: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/ Don't knock it until you try it, it really looks nice for clean languages without a lot of symbols, operators or noise.
I wonder how much of font design is driven by each authors "local indentation in the font space". What's the push to move that indentation?
Sometimes I wonder what my employer’s IT department would think of me, having installed so many font files on my machine.
I also switch color themes regularly. Do you do that too?
For the word split, it is easier to tell since they are side-b by-each, but still weird to look at without zooming in.
It's easy enough when either rendered as a larger font size, or if you lean in. But when small, those two letters are difficult.
I think that it's due to the really tall x-height, and the fact that letters sray 'in-line'. OP's 's' in particular goes terribly below baseline. Not sure if using the proper term here.