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Would you consider removing your customisations to be closer to the workflows supported by these tools? One of the great things about go is that you're free to have an opinion, but if you disagree with go fmt or go build, your opinion is wrong.

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No. A linter does more than formatting. Besides, some rules may simply not be relevant to what I'm working on while other rules are. Prettier works well enough for most people because it only covers syntax, and not whether or not you can use await in a loop, or should add tracks to your video element, or if jsx should be in scope, etc.

This is one of the real productivity superpowers of ecosystems like Go and Rust imo

Python and JavaScript have similarly good formatters (as long as your idiot colleagues don't insist on using yapf instead of Black, despite yapf producing non-deterministic output!). In fact I would say Rust is probably behind Prettier in terms of auto formatting. The rustfmt output is less pretty (subjective I know), the devs have made several strange decisions and it seems to be semi-abandoned (maybe partly because the devs were ... shall we say not as friendly and welcoming as the Rust community likes to bleat on about).

There are a couple of alternative formatters:

* https://github.com/andrewbaxter/genemichaels * https://github.com/jinxdash/prettier-plugin-rust

Still, all of them are better than clang-format!

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