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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by mixmastamyk on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:02PM (#34749165)
Editor indentation guides have been a thing for a decade or two.
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by yellowapple on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:30PM (#34755470)
That's cold comfort when I need to make some quick fix in nano or vi on some remote server somewhere.
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by mixmastamyk on Saturday February 11, 2023 @05:22PM (#34757028)
A practice to avoid. Cattle, not pets.

Not to mention, well factored functions/methods shouldn't be so large they are hard to manage. Never had trouble with terminal editors either, but I keep things simple.

Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by yellowapple on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:50AM (#34760237)
If only all of us were so fortunate to live with you in such a utopia where servers are perfectly fungible and automation scripts are written by competent software engineers :)
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by mixmastamyk on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:13PM (#34767029)
Penny wise and pound foolish, your org’s decision.

Currently on a project that had 12 years of tech debt. Have taken out about 60% of the garbage in three years. Indentation never a significant issue. Everything else has been.