Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after...
by spjt on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:14AM
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The purpose of writing is to produce something to be read, and typesetting is an important part of making a document readable.
It is incredibly irritating if I need to reformat code to be able to read it clearly before modifying it, then have to either back out all of the formatting changes to create a clean PR that shows the actual change, or create a PR full of formatting changes with the actual logic change buried somewhere within.
It is incredibly irritating if I need to reformat code to be able to read it clearly before modifying it, then have to either back out all of the formatting changes to create a clean PR that shows the actual change, or create a PR full of formatting changes with the actual logic change buried somewhere within.