Re:Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter
by camgunz on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:24PM
(#19941657)
I'm not looking for an "excellent" standard. I'm looking for something that isn't a complete outlier.
I feel like in every one of these formatter discussions people are waiting to pounce on anyone who takes issue with the formatting. I'm totally down with formatting: prettier, dart_style, rustfmt, gofmt, uncrustify, I use and love them all both professionally and personally (well, gofmt is bad at wrapping but the language is bad at wrapping in general). But in all these cases, these tools are either configurable or they set a standard for how to format code for $lang. Black does neither, which is fine, but its options then are "pick a common convention" or "pick an uncommon convention". All I'm saying is that I wish it had done the former.
I feel like in every one of these formatter discussions people are waiting to pounce on anyone who takes issue with the formatting. I'm totally down with formatting: prettier, dart_style, rustfmt, gofmt, uncrustify, I use and love them all both professionally and personally (well, gofmt is bad at wrapping but the language is bad at wrapping in general). But in all these cases, these tools are either configurable or they set a standard for how to format code for $lang. Black does neither, which is fine, but its options then are "pick a common convention" or "pick an uncommon convention". All I'm saying is that I wish it had done the former.