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I mean built in that everyone uses. There are of course third party formatters.

• School-Cotton 2y ago
  You can force everyone on a project to use a formatter just as easily in any of those languages as you can in Go, with a few lines in your CI job definitions. Whether they're third-party or not is irrelevant.
  • Mawr 2y ago
    It's not irrelevant, it's the entire point. The whole Go ecosystem uses a single formatter. There's no need to force anyone, everyone just uses gofmt. You will not be able to replicate that level of ubiquity easily at all.
    • School-Cotton 2y ago
      Not really true because you have both gofmt and gofumpt, and gofmt can be run with -s or not, and also lots of projects are using separate linters to enforce maximum line length.
      • mikeschinkel 2y ago
        But true enough.
    • guappa 2y ago
      Not true. Because after running go fmt and pushing our CI fails because of other stylistic concerns that are checked by another tool.
  • mikeschinkel 2y ago
    You can only force everyone on a project to use a formatter if you are the one who has the authority to decree what will be done on the team. OTOH, if you are but a team member and you join a team where the manager does not think common formatting is important, then you get f*ck all. So being built-in, idiomatic and expected cannot be over-appreciated.