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Re:Formatting code should be unnecessary by schneems on Monday September 08, 2025 @08:41AM (#45167559)
I learned to love rustfmt but there’s one thing that bothers me: There’s a few times where there are two ways to do something like a one line closure can omit the curly brackets, but multi line closures cannot. Rustfmt prefers to remove those brackets when it can, but I prefer to keep them, which makes editing the code faster since I don’t have a syntax error if I suddenly need a second line.

I can still live with it. And I like the clean, minimal version when I don’t have to edit. Just adding that “style” can have impact beyond how it looks involving ease of editing. And it stinks when your preferences clash with the community.

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