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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by bayindirh on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:02AM (#42947909)
gofmt sorts imports within the block they are in.

I have a habit of putting stdlib imports, a line break, golang experimental (x) imports, a line break and external imports.

I just tested, gofmt orders imports within these blocks. If I won't use the line breaks, it'll consider it a single block and will globally sort.

golang also aligns variable spacing and inline comments to look them as unified blocks (or a table if you prefer the term) and handles indents. The only thing it doesn't do is breaking lines, which I think acceptable.

Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by maleldil on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:42AM (#42950098)
I meant that you could do this with isort in Python or rustfmt with `group_imports = StdExternalCrate` (sadly, not the default), where the imports are automatically separated into blocks, which is basically what you seem to be doing manually.

My point is that many things we end up doing manually can be automated, so I don't need to care about unsorted or unused imports at all and can rely on them to be fixed without my input, and I don't have to worry about a colleague forgetting to it either.

Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by bayindirh on Thursday February 06, 2025 @02:26AM (#42959982)
I didn't know that so many people did that so formatters have an option for this. On the other hand, I'm doing this for so long across so many languages, I never thought about it. It consumes no effort on my part.

Also, gofmt not removing the breaking lines and handling groups inside themselves tell me that gofmt is aware of these choices already and accommodates this without being fussy or needing configuration about it, and it's an elegant approach.