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It's been go-fmt that's converted me to this way of thinking. It's such a waste of time having a linter tell me after I've checked in code that I'm missing a space on line 123... please just add the space. Please let me and my colleagues never have to argue again about what is the right way to format something.

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I feel the same, fmt is a productivity boon for me too.

There was a good quote from Rob Pike in his Go proverbs talk: "Gofmt's style is nobody's favourite, but gofmt is everybody's favourite."

Many linters have built-in auto-fix features like what you describe. (eslint, for example)

    rubocop -a

For the win.

Not the same experience as some of the best formatters out there. RoboCop is too configurable and too slow.

It would be nice if Rubocop didn’t need as much customization as it does, because it promotes styles that violate everything I have done in my 18 years of writing Ruby.

Some of its defaults? Fine, whatever. Others? They’re just _wrong_.

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