Comment by rsyring
1 day ago
I've read through all the sub-comments you've left here.
In short, you seem to have a grievance against linters that goes way past reasonable. You assert this example you give is "perfect" below. You also complain linters waste time and commits despite able evidence in the field they do the opposite.
You seem willing to add drama, grievance, and personal bias to what could have been a rather straightforward technical discussion. The sum of which is: linters sometimes make changes to code that I don't like.
I'd encourage you to reconsider what's really important when it comes to team development and try listening more to those around you. You seem overly focused on asserting your opinion instead of having a discussion.
These types of exchanges are usually very unproductive and stressful in a team environment. They are evidence, IMO, of a dev having the wrong priorities. I'd encourage you to step back and really consider how you view craftsmanship in a team dynamic and whether or not you are fighting the right battles.
There are some really bad linters out there like Rubocop so if they have had experience with those I get it.
A person just as opinionated as the tool. People who have very strong opinions about formatting in any direction are suspect.
I do not have any opinion on formatting. My argument is that nobody should.
your argument is about formatting and clearly you feel strongly about it.
this is the difference between the atheist who strongly believes nobody should believe and the atheist who isn't interested and doesn't care
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My issue with your comment is not that it seems to offer unsolicited psychological advice completely out of the blue; it's that it leaves me with an uncanny feeling that it was written by an LLM.
In a thread where I complain about the de-humanisation of my profession by the bots, the irony of having a bot's psychological advice (and so, de-humanising the discussion too) is not lost on me.
If you are really concerned about my being a bot, a quick look at my comment history, going back over a decade, should dispel that concern.
Edit: I once had someone apply for a job and their written communication was pretty caustic. After rejecting their application, I wrote and explained how unprofessional I found their interactions, encouraging them to step back and reconsider how their communication appears from the other side.
To my great surprise, they wrote back and said they had never had anyone give them such feedback and they agreed with my assessment of their interactions. They just had never seen it before. They thanked me for the feedback.
Such interactions are exceedingly rare. But I sometimes offer unsolicited advice on the off chance that said advice can make a difference.
You neither usually write in that style, nor go full shrink mode on people you talk to, so your original comment here is quite unusual in both the contents and the style.
Peace, man.