Send me your list of D gripes and wishes

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Monday, 26 December 2022 at 04:06:05 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 26/12/2022 4:57 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
>> I agree that the friction cannot be reduced to zero. I still 
>> think it is probably possible to reduce it to, say, 50% of its 
>> current amount, without compromising on quality.
>
> Here is a big one: remove the damn style checkers!
>
> Automatic format on PR and commit right back into remote branch.
>
> Problem solved. No more CI errors.

Genuine curiosity, because maybe you have experience with that 
that I don't: how would this work with multi-patch PRs?

I ask because, personally, I don't find CI style checks to be a 
problem, especially if there's an easy way to run a local tool to 
check and/or fix things on a patch-by-patch basis.  That way I 
can make sure that the code is both style-compliant and that it 
"reads" well for me.  OTOH I do have a bit of a problem with the 
idea of an external system rewriting my code for me, especially 
if the result is messy -- like a series of patches that violate 
code style followed by an auto-generated fix-the-style patch.

Maybe that's too fussy ... ?  But my experience has tended to be 
that when people entirely outsource style-compliance to external 
tooling, you wind up with a lot of quite ugly code and 
harder-to-follow patches.