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Re:Avoid aligning keys and values in source code unnecessarily by elzbardico on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:36PM (#46556493)
You can pry my alignment format rules out of my cold dead hands.

I Absolutely love how the use of white space makes things more readable.

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Re:Avoid aligning keys and values in source code unnecessarily by adrianmsmith on Saturday January 10, 2026 @07:43AM (#46565244)
Im not sure I understand the readability benefits. Is code like line 286 here, which doesn’t align values in assignments, difficult to read?

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/commands/comman...

Even if there were readability benefits, I’m not sure they’d be enough to offset the extra effort in reviewing, diffing and merging.

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