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by hughrr 1736 days ago
Ive been using python to pay the mortgage since about 1999. With respect to indentation, realistically it depends on how many morons you have to share the code with and how many broken ass misconfigured editors those morons are wielding.

At least you can actually see everything with semantic value in Lisp!

I really prefer writing Go now for a number of reasons if I’m honest which are too numerous to list here.

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With the widespread availability and use of code formatters like black, pre-commit hooks and ci/cd pipelines, complaining about indentation seems like a deeper problem in the engineering org. Files that are inconsistently formatted should never make it to code review, much less be merged.