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On auto-formatters

An often heard comment is that "typing speed is not the bottleneck in writing code" and "code is read more often than it's written". I think both these assessments are right. If you can afford the time to think up good names, you can take the time to decide on good formatting.

Readability >> consistency

Out-sourcing the formatting to auto-formatters is a weak ass excuse to not think about how formatting can make your code more readable.

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