Re:The hardest program I've ever written (2015)
by RussianCow on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:49PM
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> Determining the best way to use one will create more work for you as you manage your team, and will inevitably add a new step to your already complex building process.
I don’t know. I write JavaScript at $DAY_JOB and setting up Prettier on our repos took all of ~30 minutes, with an additional ~15 to determine which options to use. (There aren’t many because Prettier is fairly opinionated.) I have seen far more time wasted quibbling about code styling in code reviews.
Moreover, using an automatic formatter will not fix it, because, guess what, there is no universal code formatter. All of them have different results and a long list of parameters. Determining the best way to use one will create more work for you as you manage your team, and will inevitably add a new step to your already complex building process. Just stop worrying and use that time in more productive ways.