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Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://editorconfig.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why should this be at the editor level? There should be a linter that applies all these stylistic formatting changes to all files automatically. If the developer's own editing tools or personal workflow have a chance to introduce non-standard styles to the codebase, you have a deeper problem.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Why should this be at the editor level?

Because for every programming language there'll be people using text editors, but you'll never succeed in even creating code formatters for them all.

The greatness in this project is in aiming low and making things better through simple achievable goals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I want both. When I am typing code in my editor I want it to follow the styles of the project. Then when I run the linter/formatter it will fix the mistakes.

The last thing I want is to start a new if foo { statement and the indent is half of the indent of the if above. That would be too distracting.