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> Programming languages should not be overly opinionated in formatting I think gofmt, python black, etc have demonstrated that it's usually better to have a si

• booleandilemma 4y ago
  It's funny you say that, because Go and Python are two of my least favorite languages, partially for reasons of formatting.
• pigsinzen 4y ago
  They have demonstrated that some people have interest in controlling formatting. It would be a stretch to say they demonstrated that it’s better to enforce a standard. Black, itself, changed rules many times within a 1-year period to the point our own CI would fail on existing code that previously passed.
  • __turbobrew__ 4y ago
    > CI would fail on existing code that previously passed. You problem isn’t that black changed formatting rules, your problem is that you didn’t pin CI dependencies. This isn’t a unique problem to black, any other tool used in CI pipelines can cause things to break if you don’t pin them.
    • danuker 4y ago
      Indeed. Something wihout security impact will use pointless resources when you update. Do it rarely (or never if possible).