Comment by josephg

My desktop monitor is a 47” display … also running at 4k. It’s essentially a TV, adapted into a computer monitor. It takes up the whole width of my desk.

It’s an utterly glorious display for programming. I can have 3 full width columns of code side by side. Or 2 columns and a terminal window.

But the pixels are still the “normal” size. Text looks noticeably sharper with sub-pixel rendering. I get that subpixel rendering is complex and difficult to implement correctly, but it’s good tech. It’s still much cheaper to have a low resolution display with subpixel font rendering than render 4x as many pixels. To get the same clean text rendering at this size, I’d need an 8k display. Not only would that cost way more money, but rendering an 8k image would bring just about any computer to its knees.

It’s too early to kill sub pixel font rendering. It’s good. We still need it.