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Re:Go 1.27 by jeremyjh on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:24PM (#49368491)
What is childish is holding up one guy's editor preferences as a religious sacrament when 99.9% of your readers have different preferences.
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Re:Go 1.27 by dotwaffle on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:26PM (#49369393)
Well, there's kind of a precedent at least...

> Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.

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Re:Go 1.27 by saturn_vk on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:43AM (#49372831)
That's been a major success
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Re:Go 1.27 by XorNot on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:42AM (#49374488)
It basically revolutionized the entire industry and thank god.

Opinionated standard formatting is now the default.

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Re:Go 1.27 by poncho_romero on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:48AM (#49375406)
Unlike formatting preferences, the colours I use in my editor don't effect others. That said I might not mind living in a world where everyone used the same highlighting scheme, as long as it was reasonable ;)
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