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Buttons840 on Sept 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Formatting code should be unnecessary

> Arguing and obsessing about code formatting is simply useless bikeshedding.

Unless it's an accessibility issue, and it is an accessibility issue sometimes.

mmastrac on Sept 8, 2025 [–]

Maybe if you use 16-wide tabs or a 40 character line length.

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