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grandempire on April 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter

You aren’t a real software engineer if your project doesn’t have 50 dot files in the root for your formatters, package mangers, linters, and ci.

Who formats the formatter configs?

zufallsheld on April 9, 2025 [–]

> Who formats the formatter configs?

Other formatters of course since the configs are often yaml, toml, ini or json.

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