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Comment by Calavar

2 days ago

Why does a package manager need a formatter at all?

Is cargo just a package manager? Go?

  • Careful, we're going to end up with some integrated development environment, that has all these things working nicely together!

  • This is starting to sound like uv is a trojan horse that was introduced as a package manager and is now seeking to replace the diverse python ecosystem with a totalizing approach that is anathema to the the python way (standardize protocols, accommodate diverse implementations).

    • Good. The state of affairs today is awful - what happened to "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"?

    • They've been very outspoken about the intentions of uv being a similar tool to cargo from the start.

  • Ok, but we will go a step further and also integrate the remaining of ruff features? Because we have `go vet`. Does it even make sense to have the linter integrated too?

    I am not sure I like this either. I think linter and formatter are more like developer dependencies, especially because both formatter and linters are generally things that you want to lock to a specific version to avoid e.g. CI failures or mass changes when a version is updated. But I can understand that having a formatter always available may be nice.