• Ligatures are great. Don’t use them if you don’t like them, but don’t try to shame people for having different preferences.

    The biggest exception to using ligatures is in documentation. I believe Kotlin used (uses?) ligatures in some of its documentation, leaving the reader to figure out if they actually need to type ≠ or if != will suffice. Not a great move, even if the IDE will render the ligatures just fine!