Exactly. This idea comes up time and time again, but the cost/benefit just doesn't make sense at all. You're adding an unbelievable amount of complex tooling just to avoid running a simple formatter.

The goal of having every developer viewing the code with their own preferences just isn't that important. On every team I've been on, we just use a standard style guide, enforced by formatter, and while not everyone agrees with every rule, it just doesn't matter. You get used to it.

Arguing and obsessing about code formatting is simply useless bikeshedding.

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scubbo 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I disagree with almost every choice made by the Go language designers, but `Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite` is solid. Pick a not-unreasonable standard, enforce it, and move on to more important things.

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spyspy 4 days ago | parent [-]

My only complaint about gofmt is that it’s not even stricter about some things.

	▲	duskwuff 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Good news: there are tools like https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt which fork gofmt and enforce stricter rules (while remaining invariant under gofmt).

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rbits 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah it would probably be a waste of time. It's a nice idea to dream about though. It would be nice to be able to look at some C# code and not have opening curly brackets on a separate line.

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mdaniel 4 days ago | parent [-]

I say this fully cognizant of the thread in which it's posted, but these people are sick

https://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle.html#_style=whitesmith

And then someone said: oh yeah? Hold my beer https://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle.html#_style=pico

	▲	masklinn 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		These are beginner horrors. For me nothing beats the insanity of the gnu style: https://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle.html#_style=gnu

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Buttons840 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Arguing and obsessing about code formatting is simply useless bikeshedding.

Unless it's an accessibility issue, and it is an accessibility issue sometimes.

	▲	mmastrac 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe if you use 16-wide tabs or a 40 character line length.

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raspasov 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>> The goal of having every developer viewing the code with their own preferences just isn't that important.

Bah! So, what is more important? Is the average convenience of the herd more important? Average of the convenience, even if there was ever such a thing.

What if you really liked reading books in paper format, but were forced to read them on displays for... reasons?