Today I learned that “Bjarne uses Rob Pike’s Sam text editor, which by default uses a proportional font (Lucida).” This comes from a comment on Hacker News, so unclear how confident we can be in this statement.
On the other hand Rob Pike himself tweeted (tweet now deleted) that he programs Go with Lucida Grande.
I have been exploring (and rewriting) retro text editors as of late, so learning about Bjarne Stroustrup’s use of sam piqued my interest and I thought I’d capture this in my memex/breadcrumbs. I’d love to dig into sam’s source code (via codereading.org) as well as plan9’s acme.
Today’s Links:
- https://guardianproject.info/
- http://mailgun.com/ – what Derek Sivers uses
- Lucida Sans – Lucida Fonts - the font Rob Pike and Bjarne Strostrup use
How Rob Pike thinks about fixed width fonts
- Rob Pike (@rob_pike · Feb 16, 2015) – Bigelow&Holmes are having a flash sale this week. LucidaGrande (the font I program in) for $1 instead of $40. lucidafonts.com/fonts/family/l…
- Mat Ryer (@matryer · Feb 16, 2015) – Replying to @rob_pike – @rob_pike you don’t use a fixed width font for code?
- Rob Pike (@rob_pike · Feb 16, 2015) – Replying to @matryer – @matryer No. Why would I? I don’t use a fixed width font for anything else. Making columns line up is a job for machines not humans.
- Mat Ryer (@matryer · Feb 16, 2015) – @rob_pike but the ‘equals’ don’t line up -
go fmtinsists #ocd
– (attached code image) - Rob Pike (@rob_pike · Feb 16, 2015) – @matryer It thinks they’re lined up so I am happy because I don’t have to think about it.