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by gwbas1c 2824 days ago
Great idea.

I work on a project that's grown in complexity and team size. Developers have come and gone. Sometimes a bit of code that's grown over a few years needs its style to evolve. This kind of formatter clearly realizes this.

What I tell developers that complain about this or that style is that it's more important to have a consistent code style throughout the lifetime of a project, then to adopt whatever bracing style someone happens to like at the time.

I'd really like all of my code to be automatically formatted with a tool like this, as part of the build process. This would help with situations where code evolves, as it would reformat it when needed.