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I'm going to have to write a whole fucking essay explaining that automatic code formatting is bad and you're wrong if you like it, aren't I

@jessewilson as a matter of research shall we say, how would you summarize your issues with code formatters?

@autonomousapps

The formatting rules are dumb.

Maybe I have some code that’s got a tabular structure and I want a few lines to match up vertically.

I get it just the way I want, then the code formatter comes and throws that careful alignment away.

@autonomousapps

The IDE integration is clumsy.

I’ve got .editorconfig but the tools still disagree on unimportant stuff like how aliased imports are sorted.

I don’t want an IDE plugin for whitespace! That’s just another thing that can be slow or break.

@jessewilson @autonomousapps Please include the link to a bug filed about this. Because the point of both tools reading editorconfig is to be consistent with each other, after all. Surely we're not complaining that software has bugs without filing issues, right?