alt Hacker NewsWe can replace the endless and useless discussion on how to format code with an endless and useless discussion on what linting tool to use.
Another option would be to leave both topics alone and go on with our lives, improving the product, fixing bugs, implementing new features, and generally giving customers a better product and shareholders more value, while respectfully agreeing to disagree on the issues of style.
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Hendrikto • yesterday at 11:48 AM
> We can replace the endless and useless discussion on how to format code with an endless and useless discussion on what linting tool to use.
That is why gofmt is so great. As the saying goes: gofmt’s style is nobody’s favorite, yet gofmt is everybody’s favorite.
People tend to use tools set up in CICD and/or precommit. Without rules everyone uses their tool and is unwilling to compromise. Even if they are willing it is hard to setup tools to do exactly what you want. Default configuration is always the way.