[jlgreco]

What is the "biggest" gain a language can have is a matter of taste. Someone who considers the handling of formatting and style to be the "biggest" is likely to be one who values those things highly.

That you do not value those things as highly is not particularly profound. It doesn't mean that he is wrong to be excited about that, nor that he is excited about the wrong language, nor even that there is no reason for you to be excited about that language. It only means that there is no reason for you to be excited about that language for that particular reason.

[j-kidd]

> Someone who considers the handling of formatting and style to be the "biggest" is likely to be one who values those things highly.

Not really. Someone who values those things highly would have written the code as such, instead of relying on a utility to reformat the code.

[burntsushi]

Are you being purposefully obtuse? Do we really all just use and read our own code and not the code of others?

Having `gofmt` drastically increases the probability that any particular Go program has the same style/formatting that you're used to.