Dart_style Alternatives

dart_style reviews and mentions

• Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 10 years
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2025

  Vehemently disagree. I get that go's conventions line up with your own, but when they don't, it's irritating. For example, Dart is finally coming around on the "tall" style (https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/issues/1253). But why should people be forced to wait for a committee (or some other lofty institution) to change a style convention that then effects everyone using the language? What's the harm in letting people write their code in the "tall" style beforehand? Why must the formatter be so insistent about it?

• Why is Prettier rock solid?
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2024

  > Oh I'm curious why you're rewriting it?

  The primary driver is that we're moving to a fairly different formatting style: https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/issues/1253

  The formatter works sort of like a compiler in that it parses the code, translates it to an internal representation, does optimization on that IR, and then outputs final code. The main difference is that the "final code" is also source code, and the "optimization" is line splitting.

  The old IR grew organically over time and got increasingly difficult to work with. It baked certain formatting choices directly into the IR (mainly indentation) which line splitting then had no control over. For example, given a function call like:

      someLongFunctionName(some + long + argument + expression, [firstElement, anotherElement, aThirdElement]);

• The Record type is coming to Dart/Flutter!
  3 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 25 Nov 2022

  in your analysis_options.yaml. The formatter doesn't understand the new syntax yet, though.

• Linter actually that important for a lot of minor things?
  3 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 29 Jun 2022

  Sorry, perhaps im not quite familiar with the GitHub issues you’re chatting about, but a quick search shows the Dart team actually made a very similar argument about laptops and diffs as the first reply in a thread about the 80 character max: https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/issues/833

• What is the best flutter formatter?
  1 project | /r/FlutterDev | 24 Jun 2022

  Nope, but there is a proposal to set line length in pubspec.yaml: https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/issues/918

• Imagine that someone passed a law—literally a criminal offense—if you formatted your code longer than 80 columns. You were forced to comply. Do you honestly believe that your engineering productivity or overall quality of life as a human on Earth would be measurably negatively impacted?
  1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 14 Apr 2022
• Custom Formatting in VS Code
  2 projects | /r/dartlang | 1 Nov 2021

  The standard Dart extension only supports formatting using the SDK-supplied formatter (dart_style) which (by design) is not configurable (although it can be turned on/off with the dart.enableSdkFormatter setting).

• 10 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Flutter Development
  6 projects | dev.to | 14 Jun 2021

  Flutter itself provides formatting choices, however, it only formats Dart files and it doesn’t re-order the code. Flutter formats the code based on these formatting rules.

• Flutter’s take on the 2-space indent code style
  1 project | /r/dartlang | 9 Jun 2021
  1 project | /r/FlutterDev | 9 Jun 2021
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