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[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

Is there some language or "syntax formatter" that turns source code into something more off a visual programming language? Like a WYSIWYG markdown editor.

Like python doesn't have curly braces, but you could add some kind of "block illustration".

Or you could have illuminated initials for variable names to make them more unique.

[-] thezeesystem 13 points 7 hours ago

This is great if you don't want the united states politicians to read it.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

I use Comic Code. It's not free, but it's so whimsical.

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 2 points 4 hours ago

Oh hey, someone else who uses Comic Code - greetings!

I remember when I first saw it, I laughed - and then it grew on me. Then it turned into "I can't believe I am buying a derivation of comic sans" but it is actually a really nice monospaced font.

Only thing I didn't like was having to figure out how to use Font Patcher to make a copy of it that supports nerd fonts, but it was a one and done process.

(I also don't really like how it looks in my IDE the few times I find myself on Windows, but I don't really blame the font for that one - looks perfect in the same IDE on Linux...)

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

JetBrains Mono to the top!

[-] HolidayGreed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

Iosevka, a variant with slashed zero.

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

I really em want to makenit a reality, do anyone here know a 17th century antique monosace font?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

IBM Mono Plex >>> all other, especially this horrible mess

[-] peto@lemm.ee 132 points 1 day ago

See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can't force people to read it in this font.

[-] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 107 points 1 day ago

Of course you can. Instead of committing the code to a repository, you just take screenshots of the everything and commit that instead.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 day ago

Settle down Satan.

[-] tauren@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And then you program a runtime that calls an AI to parse images and execute your code in real-time!

[-] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 14 points 1 day ago

Are you my coworkers?

[-] cupcakezealot 15 points 1 day ago

all code is written down in physical loose leaf notebooks

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Hey that's MY cursed python programming method... I wonder if I still have those books

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 4 hours ago

Oh, so that's what those Python notebooks are that I've heard people talk about!

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago

You can if you paste it into a write protected pdf

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

The only real way to write protect it is by printing the pdf into pdf (making it a pdf of an image).

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I wonder if this font would screw up ocr?

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click "trust this project".

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Just add it for VSCode and Jetbrains and you cover like 75-95% of devs

[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

SideShowBobUUUUGH.wav

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

I... Somehow just realized that I can of course change my editor font. After three years in professional software dev.

Any recommendations for maximizing readability?

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I picked up a great little test along the way: type the word ill or illegal followed by 100, using a capital I in illegal and mixing an upper case O and a zero in the number.

Ill10O

Can you clearly tell all these characters apart in your editor font?

I am all about Fira Code, myself

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

Look up a good article on coding fonts and pick your camp! At the moment I have DejaVu installed but I'm not a purist. As long as it's properly designed for this I'm happy. Ligatures are particularly nifty in some languages but no big deal. I recall one author picking a font so that the italics would be cursive rather than monospace, so that his comments would look like handwritten notes in the margin, but I never got a chance to try it myself. Looked great though!

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Fira Code is my go-to.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago

https://www.codingfont.com/ is a fun, tournament style quiz that compares different monospace fonts. It's far from comprehensive, but I found it useful to gauge what font features I find stylish and readable

(For the record, my go-to font is Jetbrains Mono)

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Lol I got Fira Code which is what I actually use. Awesome tool

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

I got Fira Code, which tracks, I've used it before. I use Comic Code though. (A monospace comic sans type font.)

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My go-to has been Fira Code for some time. Just did the test, and Fira Code was the winner. Jetbrains Mono was a close second for me though.

[-] mcv@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

That was fun. Apparently I'm a JetBrains Mono user. Of course it might be simply what I'm used to, because I'm a long time IntelliJ user. It wouldn't surprise me if this is already my font.

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[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 day ago

Comic mono

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago

I unironically love comic sans derivatives, they're just super readable to me

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Comic sans was invented for legibility on CRT screens, and its considered good for younger people to learn the iconography of various Latin characters.

Its just misused since it was standard in Windows and Apple's OS X, and used in situations that aren't meant for such a typeface. It's perfectly good for what it was invented for, its just often incorrectly used by designers who don't really know how to design well.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Comic sans can help a lot of people with dyslexia.

[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

Comic sans is a great typeface in my opinion. Just often misused.

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I guess it depends on your preference but I love Fira Code

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[-] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Try JetBrains Mono.

[-] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'm a big fan of GoHuFont

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Verdana.

The I/l and O/o/0, 0/8/ø are all distinct, so are all the different kinds of brackets. Also, this isn't a monospace font, so wide letters such as m and w are wide, instead of being squashed into an unreadable barcode.

Letters aren't meant to be monospace, and sans TUI nothing in computers still needs to be.

If you do need one, ex. for TUI, I second JetBrains Mono!

Also, Verdana is not a libre font, Noto Sans is a libre font that also has these properties, although code does look much better in Verdana to me.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Also, this isn't a monospace font

Oh no.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

You wouldn’t want mono space in languages where indentation matters?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 9 hours ago

Nope, indentation is still the same.

For example eight spaces are going to be twice as big as four spaces in just about any font, and Verdana still accodomodates well to this with its wide spaces.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

It's a bit vanilla but I like DejaVu Sans Mono 8pt in my terminal, which is where I edit scripts and things

Curiously, I don't think that looks quite as good at larger sizes, so I've been using Liberation Mono 9pt or 10pt elsewhere.

Both of those have distinct glyphs for the usual easily confused candidates. Can't be having my lowercase L's and 1s looking similar.

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[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

std::string independence;

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago

In this case it's because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk's servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)

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[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago

reduce the flourishes and/or add more spacing between lines and it would be a lot more readable.