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What do you want out of a coding monospace font?
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Not that big on ligatures in monospace, really. I think I just go with what seems to look kinda nice and has a big enough amount of symbols to not look weird once a few of them are needed.
Also generally prefer dotted zero, or an inverse Ø. Fonts that make 0 and Ø look the same might as well just drop the slash altogether.
In spite of that I've been using Fantasque Sans Mono for years. At least the slash in its 0 doesn't extend beyond the circle like in an Ø.
This is my choice too. I love it.