gclaugus

I am ok with this progression.

Yeah, Fira Code is an excellent font, and it is something I have used in the past. PragmataPro looked prettier to my eyes so I bought it, that's all. In fact, it's linked as an alternative on that Github page.

The condensed look and lack of interlinear spacing of PPro are a nice bonus, not that there aren't other condensed fonts. I suppose for intl use PPro might be nice too since it has 9000+ glyphs, and the dev is still adding more.

I'd say yeah, I bought PragmataPro because it's a work of art and has great ligature support. Operator Mono is another popular choice.

Walrus operator looks like a great addition, not too much syntax sugar for a common pattern. Why were folks arguing about it?

I don't understand the justification. Because people do dumb things, we should do more dumb things?

This doesn't mean that we shouldn't do it.

Why should she put her son at risk for a science experiment?

I've been doing Excel and VBA work for my internship this summer, and I have to say, I have an immense amount of respect for the engineers behind Excel. Excel is incredibly extensible, it has very nice built-in error handling for mangled data (but horrible exception handling in VBA), and overall it is simply a joy working with it.

Sure, it has some pain points, but for my use case (financial analysis), it complements Bloomberg very well. Bloomberg's Excel add-in is very well-engineered, and there is even a way to hook into Bloomberg through VBA. Cheers to the MSFT devs who crafted this stuff.