[yes_man]

The problem is when 2 people with same level of enthusiasm for linter rules but opposing views collide. If there’s nothing more impactful you could be solving and spending energy and time on than arguing those linter rules, then it’s time to question where the project is at and where is it going.

And if there is something more important, then instead of of micro-optimizing the rules when there is strong disagreement it’s probably best if one of the parties takes the high road and lives with it so you can all focus on what matters.

[vbezhenar]

I guess that's one reason why opinionated tools like prettier or gofmt are popular. They made all the choices for you, they don't have configurable knobs, so you just learn to live with it.

[lsaferite]

FWIW, there are formatting decisions that gofmt doesn't make for you, so it's not as simple as just using gofmt.

[megamalloc]

The bad thing about these sort of tools is when you work in a shop where multiple platforms are used for development and one of the platforms doesn't support the tool, or the tool fights with other tooling on that platform. You should for example never use pre-commit to enforce line ending style because git has brain dead defaults (which is to say, unless you have a .gitsettings file in your repo to prevent it, it will change line endings itself, fighting pre-commit). This just creates confusion and wasted time. In aid of what? So some anal so-and-so can get their way about code formatting as though it makes everyone else more productive to format code THEIR way. When in fact it makes others LESS productive as they fight "computer says no" format-nazi jobs in CI that don't even report what is "wrong" with the formatting and rely on tooling that they don't have installed to run locally.

Not to mention the overhead of running these worthless inefficient tools on every commit (even locally).

Tools like this just raise the debate from different opinions about formatting to different opinions about workflows. Workflows impact productivity a lot more than formatting.

[bluGill]

You should force them to choose from someone else's style. Don't let them tweak individual settings, choose a complete standard and apply it with both the thing they like and things they don't. A style is useful, the details do not matter that much.