Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
I found this article utterly baffling. The author clearly knows their stuff, having created Fira Code, but my experiences couldn&#x27;t be more different.<p><pre><code>    I spend most of my days in a text browser, text 
    editor and text terminal, looking at barely moving 
    letters.

    So I optimize my setup to showing really, really 
    good letters.
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I certainly appreciate how <i>nice</i> text looks on a high DPI display.<p>But for coding purposes!? I don&#x27;t find high DPI text more legible... unless we&#x27;re talking <i>really</i> tiny font sizes, smaller than just about anybody would ever use for coding.<p>And there&#x27;s a big &quot;screen real estate&quot; penalty with high DPI displays and 2X scaling. As the author notes, this leaves you with something like 1440×900 or 1920x1080 of logical real estate.  Neither of which is <i>remotely</i> suitable for development work IMO.<p><pre><code>    But at least you can enjoy that gorgeous screen and 
    pixel-crisp fonts. Otherwise, why would you buy a retina 
    screen at all?
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It&#x27;s not like you really have the option on Macs and many other higher-end laptops these days. And I am buying a computer to do some work, not admire the beautiful curves of a nice crisp font.<p>So anyway, for me, I chose the Dell 3818. 38&quot;, 3840 x 1600 of glorious, low-resolution text. A coder&#x27;s paradise.<p>For purposes of software development, I won&#x27;t really be interested until 8K displays become affordable and feasible. As the author notes, they integer scale perfectly to 2560×1440. Now that would rock.