Dart Format Stupidity

Dart format is really f*ing stupid

Like who thought that having a formatter so opinionated that you can’t even change the indentation style is truly baffling.

Prettier, a famously opinionated formatter, allows you to change the indentation style, as that is one of the common choices people make. I do understand that giving very many options (like Eslint does) can be very overwhelming and may not satisfy the “Dart Style Guide”.

But, if you degrade the developer experience so much by forcing a 2 space indent (which, according to some polls, more developers dislike it than there are developers who either don’t care or like it, combined).

So, this brings me to the problem: I really enjoy having my own coding style. I can however still appreciate an opinionated formatter, but only if you can at least change the indentation style. Primarily so, because my editor is set to 4 space indents, it is annoying having to set up an autocmd to switch to 2 space indents when using dart.

Thus, I am not going to use flutter for ConductorCalc as I had intended, but will probably use NativeScript-Vue, as it seems to tick just about every box.