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Sometimes, it's backwards (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried using VScode to play around with Golang. I had to quit coding to take care of something else. I hit save, and suddenly I have way fewer lines of code. WTF? Why did/would saving delete code? After much digging, it turns out because the all knowing VSCode thought because I had not yet referenced my variables, I never would, and since my code I wanted to save and continue later wouldn't compile, it must be quelled. Off with its head!

Anyway, I decided to use vim instead. When I did :wq, the file was saved exactly as I had typed it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is either false, or you didn't understand the environment you were working in.

You have to explicitly turn on the setting to have VSCode reformat on save, it's not on by default, and when it is on, it's there for a reason, because having software developers that do not all follow the same standard for code formatting creates unpredictable needless chaos on git merge. This is literally 'working as a software developer on a team 101'.