I'd say everyone is used to it. It's a very new idea to combine monospace and ligatures. I wouldn't say they are crazy helpful, certainly not to the extent syntax highlighting is, but I found that they're not at all distracting (I avoid Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, a popular plugin that helps many, because it distracts me).
It makes sense mentally, since there's no reason operators need to have gaps in them. And visually the space between the operator and the identifiers increases, without wasting extra width.
Not once did I have a "how do I type that symbol" question in my head.
To sum it up, it was a cultural shock at the beginning, but I don't think it impacted my productivity even then.
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I'd say everyone is used to it. It's a very new idea to combine monospace and ligatures. I wouldn't say they are crazy helpful, certainly not to the extent syntax highlighting is, but I found that they're not at all distracting (I avoid Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, a popular plugin that helps many, because it distracts me).
It makes sense mentally, since there's no reason operators need to have gaps in them. And visually the space between the operator and the identifiers increases, without wasting extra width.
Not once did I have a "how do I type that symbol" question in my head.
To sum it up, it was a cultural shock at the beginning, but I don't think it impacted my productivity even then.