RT @p01arst0rm@twitter.com
another hot take: FUCK linters. they encourage people to not pay attention to the way their formatting code and then their whole project ends up being a pile of crap only understandable by 10x engineers
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/p01arst0rm/status/1161310446722437121
I used to think like this - and have many opinions on how to format code.
But nowadays, since I work with 10s of other engineers and on FOSS, the more consistent code is and the more work can be automated away the better.
I like not having to pay attention and make sure my code is formatted correctly before submitting a patch. Just run a tool and its good to go.
That way, all code is formatted consistently. Which more important than it being formatted the way you want it to be.
Of course - its also important to remember that I am useful as an engineer to solve problems - not spend time adding and removing white space.
I do still have preferred methods of formatting code, which I would implement on my own projects.
But the formatting decisions become mostly immaterial against the benefit of all devs being forced to use the same formatting through linters.
Working through some code and finding it hard to read? - Cool, temporarily re-format it the way you enjoy.