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Arguably opinionated formatters like prettier and black are a response to gofmt.

• ses1984 6y ago
  Definitely but what about the impact of go's approach to network concurrency?
  • warent 6y ago
    For one example, I believe Crystal is inspired by Go in this respect. https://crystal-lang.org/ https://crystal-lang.org/
  • Scarbutt 6y ago
    asynchrony without async/await
• shadowgovt 6y ago
  Benefits of this for large system projects cannot be understated. The notion that there's a many-to-one mapping between allowed representations of the source code and a canonical representation is very smart because it enables bidirectional preferences; not only can the main source make assumptions about code format independent of individual user preferences, but individual users can have preferences independent of the main source; code that is in a canonical format is easier to apply custom formatting to. In addition, a canonical format makes it slightly easier to do plaintext search indexing, so you can get some of the benefits of having the code parsed into a full AST without needing to do that parsing.