[nickpresta]

Hey Vjeux. What does black mean for the prettier python plugin[1]? I had high hopes to move over all projects to prettier (for JS/Python). Is there going to be any merging between prettier python and black? Do you recommend one over the other?

Thanks

[1] https://github.com/prettier/plugin-python

[vjeux]

I don't know :)

I worked on prettier myself because I wanted to solve formatting for the language I was involved in. It turned out that the prettier infrastructure was actually really good for other languages so we used it for CSS, Markdown, GraphQL... and added support for a plugin system for other people to build printers for their own language. patrick91 (not working at Facebook) is working on a python formatter using the prettier infrastructure.

Independently, ambv (working at Facebook) started black which is written in Python. He's part of the Python core team and the Python infrastructure team at Facebook so it made sense for him to drive adoption of black within Facebook.

One interesting thing I realized is that communities are built around programming languages and it's really hard to influence another community from the outside. So my bet would be that black has the most chance of succeeding within the Python community.

[ballenf]

> One interesting thing I realized is that communities are built around programming languages and it's really hard to influence another community from the outside.

IMO, that point is worthy of a detailed blog post or conference talk, if you would be so inclined. Would love to hear more.