On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 6:13 AM Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> wrote:
>
> Am Di., 19. März 2019 um 21:53 Uhr schrieb Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>:
> > I'm not really a fan of auto-formatters because they can just never be
> > as good as a human in all cases.
> As I understand Ron's argument, the idea is to accept being "less
> good" than any single expert person, because it's traded in for more
> consistency and less friction over everything code formatting since
> the Machine Is Right[tm].

I repeat Rob Pike's comment:
"nobody likes the output of the Go formatter, everyone likes the Go formatter"

meaning that while the output doesn't always meet everyone's standard
of perfection, it removes the arguments based on people's different
ideas of what is good. And, plus, none of you agree with me or even
each other in ALL cases on what "looks good", so at some point these
arguments boil down to "because I like it."

I watched this roll out in the Go community in 2011 or so. gofmt was
required. There were lots of arguments. In the end, people realized
that it was nice to delegate formatting to a robot, because these
arguments get exhausting.

Nobody now remembers a time when robots did not format Go code. Nobody
wants to go back.

This is true of many projects, in particular those using Rust or Go.

ron
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