[lytedev]

At least in the JavaScript world, this was a lovely thing to have. Now we have linters which are even better! Still nice to include this so that all collaborators don't need to modify their editors to jump in!

[nmstoker]

It's the simple cross editor convenience this brings that really appeals to me.

[qntmfred]

and now we have https://prettier.io/docs/en/why-prettier.html we can automatically enforce and fix all these style rules

[andreineculau]

I haven't used prettier but eslint can also fix style

[manveru]

And of course there's https://github.com/prettier/prettier-eslint to fix it using both :)

[Siilwyn]

Do not compare it to linters they serve a different purpose. Editorconfig is for using the right editor settings, linters are for programmatically checking and formatting code. So Editorconfig and a linter should be used together.