I wish for Java to have a built-in formatter just like Go has. Enough with these plugins and google-format and messy intelij settings.

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Ahh yes, nothing brings out the strong opinions like formatting. Let's do SQL next!

And yet, judging by the number of comments, it is definitely not a solved problem :)

good luck with that.. I didn't had a decent IDE capable of even implementing elastic tab stops... I expect people using hex editors to flip bytes directly on the binary blob saved on disk instead of using the appropriate tools to view the "source" files.

btw: have a look at how much disdain was reserved for systemd and its pletora of binary blobs + custom tools (e.g. the journal stuff) ... and that was basically forced upon from the distributions

It basically is, unless you’re in a whitespace-Nazi language like Python (no offense!).

It doesn’t get much less formatted than Minified JavaScript, except maybe Perl or Brainfuck.

With how much LLMs do nowadays, I'm waiting for the time when specifying types is unnecessary. Like, it if can write code, shouldn't we also be able to have an AI type checker?