I have already used one such tool for C++ in one of my teams (aastyle ? Something like that). It's only the firs step. Then you have to wonder/discuss: what act

I have already used one such tool for C++ in one of my teams (aastyle ? Something like that). It's only the firs step. Then you have to wonder/discuss: what actual style to use? There are many C/C++ styles out there (stroustrup, linux, gnu, OTBS, etc.), so you have to discuss about that. Now, when you have chosen one, you have to discuss about minor fixes: "ok, so OTBS is cool, but what about line lengths? Should we choose 80 cols? That's silly, why not 120?" etc. All in all, you end up taking a whole hour (even more) about this issue. With go, that doesn't happen. You call gofmt and you're done. Another side effect: when you get external source code (open source, code written by another team, etc.), you know it will be formatted exactly the same way as yours.