[hellofunk]

The interesting thing to me is that you highlight how priorities are different among different people/companies; to me, choice of indentation spacing is trivial. But to you and the sibling comment, it obviously is not. And that's the point: a developer should be respected to decide what is important for their work. In this case, we are talking about indentation flexibility. But this problem scales throughout on many other issues that I might find important but you do not. Most languages give developers more freedom, even if starting out with a consistent default that everyone can understand first.

[enalicho]

Elm is an opinionated language. The framework comes built-in. The tooling comes built-in. A clever language designer once said "there is only one way to do it". Elm is that, but at the language level. Elm-Format is opinionated, and for people who love Elm, they also love that.