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Those discussions, indeed, are pointless. They are also huge timesinks, people spend less time sometimes deciding which framework or language or cloud provider to use and which country to register their company in, than spending hours and hours on how some SICK ANIMAL forgot a trailing comma somewhere, or bikeshedding how many spaces to indent with, and who uses an ultrawide monitor and wants wide columns (but then again someone turns theirs into portrait mode, and wants narrow columns), etc. Gobs and gobs of time, totally disproportionate to the issue at hand! Yes, black sometimes produces fugly code, but at least the bikeshedding can fucking stop. There are bugs to fix, for chrissake. Yes, some people are not thoughtful enough to format their code like a piece of poetry, so what? Should everyone take Typography 101? There is also a huge cohort of programmers who, when doing reviews and finding nothing to nitpick, resort to criticizing, in great detail, the code formatting of pull requests. They fell they MUST leave some critique or else their review is incomplete and their peepee is small. I find it hugely enjoyable that a tool like black can deprive them of the joy of belittling someone else for microscopically minor things and concentrate on, say, the actual merit of a change. |