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Don't most IDEs handle this already?

There are no tools that can format my code with my coding style AFAIK. There are multiple tool that can format my code with their coding style though, which I don't care about.

Most? All? Allow you to edit the config to get it to your coding style but it would be cool to infer it from files you’ve already written.

There aren't enough knobs to turn to get exactly what you want, I have a 500+ lines file full of linter rules configurations and that's still not good enough.

At the end of the day I think it boils down to this simple fact: you can't imperatively codify what makes the face of a person beautiful for you because that's too complicated, similarly you can't codify what makes for beautiful code to your eyes, it's something that must be learned from examples.

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