It's a cool effort but I guess it's not for me — I much prefer <= over ≤ and >= over ≥ and !== over ≠ etc. because I find it more explicit and readable than a condensed form.
Yeah, I tried ligatures and never liked them. If I type them as two, I'd like them to appear as two; I never liked it when I back-spaced on what _looked_ like one character and found two. Mostly because my head is usually a bit ahead of where my fingers and the screen are, so this throws me off and I have to go back (this is why I ended up back on vim after trying out vscode for a while, even w/vim mode, it's not perfect). Also, I could never tell the difference between single equals and long equals (that was really two). I'm glad they're there as some like them, but I don't get the appeal.
I fond that treating a ligature as two characters (or more) in the editor helps with that backspace problem. So if you type >= which is then rendered as ≥, a backspace should bring you back to >, not nothing.
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