I moved on to Biome (which replaces both ESLint and Prettier) and while the IDE extensions have been a bit buggy, it's much faster and has fewer dependencies. It was always a pain to set up ESLint + Prettier.
ESLint these days doesn't have any styling related lints (unless you opt into them) which means that it works out-of-the-box with Prettier (or Biome's formatter, presumably).
My fear with Biome is missing out on type-aware lints, but I know Oxlint has had some success integrating the new Go typescript compiler, so maybe that will work out for Biome as well.
Good to someone, somewhere, telling everyone else what good is.
Arguably, code formatters should be configurable, to get a format for your code that you want. Unfortunately, prettier isn't one, and it is a form of regression in many communities at the cost of choice pruning.
It might be great for a CI pipeline for constraining how code should look (use prettier, dumbass!), but it isn't great for actually formatting code, as it just makes the code "prettier".
Using it as a precommit hook in OSS projects makes it so that people can write code however they want. But it ends up in the repo following the guidelines of the repo. Minimizing unnecessary back-and-forth with PRs. Extremely useful in my opinion.
Even though prettier has defaults, but they can be modified to quite some extent to suit your projects needs: https://prettier.io/docs/options
> Using it as a precommit hook in OSS projects makes it so that people can write code however they want.
That is the point of a formatter, so any formatter would do that (and there were many more active projects to allow formatting before prettier came around).
> quite some extent
Not really, and I have written prettier plugins to get around that constraint.
IMO, its not great, which is kind of how things work out when you try to do everything in one project.
Yes, with the difference that Google would have to be compromised in order to poison the go distributable containing fmt tool. With js, it’s enough to poison any single one of the 1400 dependencies of the linter
I forgot that even though fmt will never suffer from middle man attacks downloading the Go toolchain, the standard library already covers 100% of the uses cases someone cares about using Go for, and no one is using CGO.
I used to use CGO quite a lot in linux-embedded environment.
And we had huge dependency chains as well to non-standard library stuff, nowhere near as bad as an average nodejs project but still not free from the problem.