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Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

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365 points tanelpoder | 8 comments | 21 Aug 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 1.12s | source | bottom
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IshKebab ◴[21 Aug 25 21:59 UTC] No.44978604[source]▶
This is obviously a great move. I don't know why so many commenters here are against making things better. "Can't you just do <this slightly worse thing> already?". Well yes. But it's slightly worse.
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wasabi991011 ◴[22 Aug 25 00:41 UTC] No.44979899[source]▶
I don't think being one word longer ("uvx ruff format" vs "uv format") counts as being is worse.

I think it is much worse to create a special case that obscures the actual formatter being run and how it is being run (is ruff now preinstalled, or is it downloaded and cached in the same way as other tools?)

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1. Feuilles_Mortes ◴[22 Aug 25 02:23 UTC] No.44980423[source]▶
But you have to know about ruff. I didn't, but I did know about uv.
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2. wasabi991011 ◴[22 Aug 25 06:38 UTC] No.44981604[source]▶
Not really. If you know about uv, you know how to use "uv tool run", so you know how to use any formatter of your choice (which you can find easily on Google, arguably easier than reading the documentation and learning about uv format).
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3. IshKebab ◴[22 Aug 25 09:51 UTC] No.44982641[source]▶
He said "you have to know about ruff". You're not really refuting that by saying "no you don't, you can just google it".
4. jamienicol ◴[22 Aug 25 10:37 UTC] No.44982877[source]▶
But I don’t know what the formatter of choice is. Nor do I care what it is. I just want to format my code
5. zelphirkalt ◴[22 Aug 25 13:27 UTC] No.44984427[source]▶
Well, it is arguably worse to run an unknown, not version pinned, unconfigured formatter over your code and expect it to improve things, unless the code is an utter catastrophe in terms of formatting.
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6. wiseowise ◴[22 Aug 25 16:59 UTC] No.44986899[source]▶
It is completely irrelevant.

You’re offloading responsibility to uv devs in this case.

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7. zelphirkalt ◴[22 Aug 25 17:02 UTC] No.44986942{3}[source]▶
_You_ may find it irrelevant, but speak for yourself. I don't want dependencies, that are not version-pinned and checksummed running over my code. It is certainly not irrelevant to me.
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8. wiseowise ◴[22 Aug 25 17:20 UTC] No.44987155{4}[source]▶
That’s for uv for decide. If you don’t like what it does - don’t use uv.