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Advocacy document motivating automatic formatting #54
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@nrc Something laying out the arguments for uniformity, ease of contribution across many projects, new-developer friendliness, etc? |
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This issue made me think of a nice Google presentation about the importance they placed in ClangFormat. TLDR:
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I would like to propose also adding a small note to respect if a project made a choice deviating from the defaults. |
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We should have a document, probably here and in the rustfmt repo, and hopefully blessed by the wider Rust community (doc team? core team? wider support somehow?) in some way, that advocates for the principle of automatic formatting and for doing so using the defaults rather than customising. Some maintainers may need persuading that using Rustfmt is beneficial and we should lay out the benefits in detail.
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