Programming fonts with ligatures

A recent fad in programming communities is monospaced programming fonts full of cool ligatures.

For example GitHub has 92 repositories marked as such; among them:

• FiraCode Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
• Iosevka Versatile typeface for code, from code.
• JetBrainsMono JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
• Monocraft A monospaced programming font inspired by the Minecraft typeface
• maple-font Maple Mono: Open source monospace font with round corner, ligatures and Nerd-Font for IDE and command line.
• victor-mono A free programming font with cursive italics and ligatures. Donations welcome ❤️ See its show case on https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
• PragmataPro font is designed to help pros to work better www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/ this is particulary awesome, expecially for small size and its retro feeling; it costs 19€.
• Lilex 🤘Open source programming font
• and many others
  

I understand Fabrizio when he wrote

Guys, try to put in my place. Probably you have never attempted to draw fonts and, above all, optimize a font for the screen you can not realize the work that is behind such a project.
I tried, and I try, in every way a sponsorship or funding to reduce the price of the license, my dream was to offer it for free, but I don’t found that and I have to sell the license at a price at least partially compensate for the effort involved realize PragmataPro.
To reduce the price now would be economic suicide for me and misconduct against those who have believed before you and have already paid the amount required.

Fabrizio Schiavi author of PragmataPro (source).

Luckly for us, less for him is the fact that there are so many good enogh fonts with ligatures. But the world is so big, I trust he’s getting good revenues from his other fonts.