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You know what, I do use a small font size in my editor. I like to see a lot of code at once. And if memory serves I spotted this in the browser, where I do the opposite.

I'll have to look into hyper legible monospace fonts. Or maybe I'll just use Atkinson and deal with the variable spacing.

My editor uses a different color for comma and period.

Tell me you're a 20-something engineer without telling me you're a 20-something engineer.

Wrong

The implication being that older programmers would be entirely unconcerned with one's eyesight and the effect that reading a small font could have on such? Somehow that seems a bit backwards. People don't know what they have until it's gone.

Developing presbyopia was the first time I thought "getting old sucks".

I am doing an accessibility audit for an application at work right now and I was tasked with getting things up to the WCAG AA level but I found that I had huge amounts of unused white space, even viewing it at 1024x768 desktop, and jacked font sizes up not to the "large type" levels of AAA but substantially larger which I think is easier for everyone, given the size of the UI controls information density is not going down a whole lot.