How much do we bend to the will of our tools?

Re:How much do we bend to the will of our tools? by Macha on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:42AM (#22236794)

Yes. Not just that, but those developers then add these tools to be enforced in their CI pipeline because "It's good to be consistent", and if that tool occasionally barfs out something extremely suboptimal, that's just the cost of consistency.

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Re:How much do we bend to the will of our tools? by nothrabannosir on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:46AM (#22236855)

I'm sensing some sarcasm, but I want to go on record and say I actually completely agree with this message.

My time working in Go with its institutionalised gofmt was a blessing.

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Re:How much do we bend to the will of our tools? by fhood on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:54AM (#22236978)

Haha, I've always found that me and those CI checks get along pretty well 70% of the time, I made a mistake 20% of the time, and an ignore flag handles the remainder.

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Re:How much do we bend to the will of our tools? by timw4mail on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:50AM (#22236904)

I'd argue that's more likely a deficiency of the tool, as well as the fact that consistency just isn't the best solution in all cases.

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