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> This is a trend that I feel is going to catch on

This has been pretty standard practice in the boring ol' enterprise for at least 10 or 15 years.

Java has Checkstyle, with format-on-save support for IntelliJ, Eclipse, and NetBeans at the very least. Visual Studio supports this for all of the .NET languages. Obviously, Golang has `go fmt`. Etc.

Not to be snarky, but whenever a bold new trend seems to be really "catching on"... it's almost always a rehash of something that the enterprise was doing back in the 90's, or academic researchers were writing papers about back in the 70's. The only things that ever really change in this industry are: (1) solutions that were once impractical on old hardware become practical on newer hardware, and (2) solutions that were over-engineered in their original form come back in more user-friendly simplified forms.




Have you used the Visual Studio tools?

Could you point me in a direction to set this up on my system?




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