prettyplease VS genemichaels

Nice blog, another very useful crate to use when working with proc-macro is https://github.com/dtolnay/prettyplease, for formatting generated code (very useful for debugging!), that does not bails out like rustfmt sometimes does.

I doubt you would want to actually use this human-consumed code, but an interesting alternative that I know of is David Tolnay's prettyplease. It tries to be lightweight and consistent for auto-generated code.

btw there is also https://github.com/dtolnay/prettyplease

This, I also have a bunch of files that seem to break rustfmt. Ime, it doesn't exactly refuse to format the whole file but it's picky in what and to what degree it chooses to format, basically anything flying in the complex blocks. I have run into prettyplease but I'm yet to actually try it on these offenders.

prettyplease

Optionally, format the generated code to make it more readable. You can run rustfmt on the output file, or use prettyplease before writing the file.

Python and JavaScript have similarly good formatters (as long as your idiot colleagues don't insist on using yapf instead of Black, despite yapf producing non-deterministic output!). In fact I would say Rust is probably behind Prettier in terms of auto formatting. The rustfmt output is less pretty (subjective I know), the devs have made several strange decisions and it seems to be semi-abandoned (maybe partly because the devs were ... shall we say not as friendly and welcoming as the Rust community likes to bleat on about).

There are a couple of alternative formatters:

* https://github.com/andrewbaxter/genemichaels

There are alternatives to rustfmt: Prettier Rust and genemichaels

Gene Michaels, code formatter

I think we should all take inspiration from Gene Michaels and just start naming crates after random people.