alt Hacker News> You want a good Markdown viewer more than you think you do.
> monospaced and thus fatiguing to read.
Monospaced text is fine. I don't see how people who read code (and code comments) all day care that strongly about this. Plaintext is king
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There's limited research on readability of monospaced font. But this study suggests monospace is weakly more readable than variable-width font:
Turn off syntax highlighting for your code, translate it to COBOL, and pass it through a formatter that converts it to continuous word-wrapped text. Then we’ll talk again.
Surprised that Monaspace hasn't been mentioned below.
There is a real use case for a viewer if you have a lot of formulas. Yes you can read the raw latex but you go cross-eyed after a while. Maybe I am a softie though.
The dislike of code per se is what drives these people to use agents in the first place.
Nothing personal but I hate this take with a passion, and I literally think it's representative of the worst attitude in computing because it's the literal opposite of software SHOULD BE.
The whole entire point of computers in their best light is changeable software, the whole point should be "let people read how they want to."
There's a reason we're not reading monospaced here, and a reason we do read monospaced code.
But the beauty of this moment is that if you want a really good SwiftUI monospaced Markdown reader, you can have it before dinner. This is exactly what I'm talking about. You have an idiosyncratic personal preference, and it's now reasonable to expect software to shrink-wrap around that preference.