I like automatic formatters (if they’re a deterministic function of AST to text) because I think of what I’m writing as a syntax tree, and the fact that it’s st

I like automatic formatters (if they’re a deterministic function of AST to text) because I think of what I’m writing as a syntax tree, and the fact that it’s stored as text as a historical accident. I just want to write the tokens without ever thinking about where they go on the page, periodically save and let my formatter deal with it.