Formatters, if you want to be specific, are even worse.
They slyly add git noise and pollute your audit trails by just going through and moving shit around whenever you save a file.
And sometimes, they actually insert bugs - string formatting errors are my favorite example.
It's for people who think good code is a about adhering to aesthetic ideologies instead of making things documented and accountable.
This is most noticeable in open source contributions. Sometimes I'll get a pull request with like 2 lines of change and 120 lines of some reformating tool.
They slyly add git noise and pollute your audit trails by just going through and moving shit around whenever you save a file.
And sometimes, they actually insert bugs - string formatting errors are my favorite example.
It's for people who think good code is a about adhering to aesthetic ideologies instead of making things documented and accountable.
This is most noticeable in open source contributions. Sometimes I'll get a pull request with like 2 lines of change and 120 lines of some reformating tool.
You think I accept that?
It's not a good idea