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Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

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365 points tanelpoder | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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Calavar ◴[21 Aug 25 20:56 UTC] No.44977988[source]▶
Why does a package manager need a formatter at all?
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kristjansson ◴[21 Aug 25 20:58 UTC] No.44978009[source]▶
Is cargo just a package manager? Go?
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Calavar ◴[21 Aug 25 21:09 UTC] No.44978124[source]▶
Cargo is a hybrid of package manager and build system. So it has frontend fommands wrapping a formatter and loads of other stuff, like code linters, as part of the build system. I've used cargo to build projects even when they have no dependencies and I don't plan to bundle them up and publish them as crates.

I don't know much about go.

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Hamuko ◴[21 Aug 25 21:22 UTC] No.44978254[source]▶
uv is also a package manager and a build system.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/build-backend/

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1. RossBencina ◴[22 Aug 25 04:30 UTC] No.44981002[source]▶
Thanks for pointing that out. This is news to me. uv has been on my radar for a while and was considering switching to it as a better dependency manager. I didn't realise that it had ambitions beyond being "a better pip." At face value this is a real turn-off. Definitely violates the "do one thing and do it well" principle and puts it squarely in the "does complicated things that I want to avoid" (like poetry) category.