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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:09AM (#42947385)
as others note, most of this minutia can be automatically enforced. Anything that can be automated is not craft.
Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by marsovo on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @12:26PM (#42951966)
Heartily disagree. I have had to fight with others over automated formatting because it obscured intent or clarity. For example (C#) mandating `var`, mandating one and only one line of whitespace between lines of code, mandating the => syntax for single-line functions (instead of

Function(vars) { ... } )

I would say, when to use one or the other of each of those options is very much a craft.

Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by __mharrison__ on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:56AM (#42963589)
Sadly formatting well written pandas and Polars code cannot be automated but current tooling.