[RFC 0166] Nix formatting, take two by piegamesde · Pull Request #166 · NixOS/rfcs
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This is the long-awaited rework of RFC 101, to establish an official and standard Nix formatting and formatter. In short: Define the initial standard Nix format Establish the Nix formatter team Cr...
  • priapusEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Awesome! I’m glad I’ll be able to use format on save in Helix without screwing up my Nixpkgs commits.

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Note that it’ll still be a while until Nixpkgs will be bulk-formatted; this RFC “only” decides on the style and how to proceed.

      • priapusEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        yeah I assume the implementation will take some time, glad to see the initial steps though!

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    A default line length of 100 characters? Wow, they’re moving with times. None of that 80 character archaicness 👍

    The leading comma style was a lesser-evil workaround for the lack of trailing commas in the Nix language. Now that the language has this feature, there is no reason to keep it that way anymore.

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    Amazing! Finally that terrible style is out.

    About time they decide to format nixpkgs. That is such a mess at the moment and gives reviewers the ability to nitpick and force their own style - of course every reviewer has a different style. Only took them ~25 years, but they’re getting there 👏

    Good job on getting this through.

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