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The Rabbit Hole

178. Code Formatting - Friend or Foe

Is code formatting a blessing or is it killing the art of writing beautiful code? Today we weigh in on the arguments for and against formatting and how this might affect your coding process. An early point against formatters, we talk about how they limit nuance and some of your ability to communicate through your code. Following this, we chat about how projects can be held up because of someone’s “opinion on how code should look.” A problem that’s solved by formatters.

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