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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says
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These days it’s very common to write whatever code you want, and a formatter automatically rewrites it to conform to the projects rules during precommit.
Which is great because it allows you to focus on intent instead of format, and completely avoids any team disagreements or change rejections for trivial bullshit.
My favourite part is when your style or the auto formatter changes over time and you have to decide between:
Plus it doesn't fix the problem of auto formatters writing ugly code. You can't easily tell the auto formatter that early returns can be bracketless for brevity, but nothing else can be. Unless you add a comment like
\\ ignore-rule-2753674which makes me want to throw up