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0 pointskasey_junk9y ago0 comments

Honestly the biggest thing go has going for it is gofmt. Its one of the few things I miss when I work with other languages.

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efdee9y ago· 2 in thread

Doesn't every semi-decent IDE have an option to reformat your code? What makes gofmt so special?

cube22229y ago

That all code is written the same from the get-go, and you can readily browse it in places like github, etc.

kasey_junkOP9y ago

No external choices the language dictates style. It ships with the sdk & contributors are expected to use it so there is a cultural agreement out of the box. It's a cli tool so it's immensely scriptable and easy to integrate.

cube22229y ago

I think it may actually be the thing I miss the most. (together with implicit interfaces)

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