[mjibson]

sqlfmt is inspired by the style of gofmt (https://blog.golang.org/go-fmt-your-code). The reason a tool having an opinion about formatting is useful is that it removes humans from having to care about formatting. I didn't like how gofmt formatted my Go code at first. But since I couldn't care, I didn't care, and now I never care about formatting. Without an opinion, we spend lots of time quibbling about stuff that doesn't matter.

[joatmon-snoo]

Not having to argue about whether you want the shed to be blue or red really is super valuable.

One thing I learned somewhat recently as well is that within google3, these automatic formatters come in super handy when doing large-scale changes, e.g. when a library is deprecated and the maintainers are moving all the clients to the new one.