I'm so happy that languages are settling more and more on heavy reformatter usage. I'd like to think it was triggered by Go and gofmt. Working on a team where each engineer has their own personal syntax is not fun.
...which is why I wish Black allowed more configuration. A team can often agree on a set of styles. Every team on the Python planet agreeing... now that's much harder
Black is opinionated, so it skips the debate entirely. We just use Black, not black with 120 characters lines, just Black.
To each their own I guess, but to me it just seems like pandora's box. Once you show that you are open to changes in the linting configuration, it makes the rules mutable and pretty much guarantees that at some point someone will say "how about we just change this one parameter in the linter", which will probably be agreed by the rest of the team, not because they actually agree but because they don't want to argue.
gofmt is also opiniated. Someone somewhere picked the defaults and maybe I disagree with those defaults, but in the grand scheme of things, all go code is more approachable because it all looks the same. That to me, is worth a lot more than having my favorite format be the one on top.
EDIT: If you want to discuss the actual merits of Black, you can read their style page that actually explains every choice they made: https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/...
What for? Just to be clear even Django itself isn't obviously using a configuration, what makes your team so special they need this?
this usually just means new team members are stuck respecting the wishes of the old-timers
Why did your team not implement a style guide? Not following style is not working as a team and this needs to be addressed.
The advantage of a tool like Black is that it avoids that constant bikeshedding and the fact that it actually does the work for you puts the conversation in a different light because the option which is the least work is just letting Black format the code. Whatever you pick for style, you really want automatic formatting to avoid it seeming like a chore.
It feels like we're trying to justify the continued employment of uncooperative, contrarian egoists. Pick a style and use it or they can go find another job to waste time debating nonsense.
I've had that happen a few times and the number of people who will volunteer opinions has consistently been at least an order of magnitude larger than those who are willing to contribute something like linter or formatter configuration.