Automating formatting for official D repos

[Petar]

On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 at 01:11:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>
> My complaint isn't about that. My complaint is that when you 
> have a formatter do it, the code always ends up looking ugly no 
> matter the rules used, because it's too inflexible about it. 
> [..]

In general, I agree with your sentiment. However it also heavily 
depends on the quality of implementation of the formatter, i.e. 
the combination of objective rules and subjective heuristics it 
applies.

For example, for the past 4-5 years I've had to maintain various 
projects written in TypeScript at work. I have yet to find an 
instance where a `*.[t|j]sx?` file is formatted with Prettier [0] 
and I don't like the end-result.
On the other hand, I've also worked on projects written in Go, 
and in general I don't find the result of running `go fmt` 
particularly pleasing, but it's tolerable. (But maybe that's 
because no matter how you format Go code it will always look 
ugly, unlike D :D)

[0]: https://prettier.io/