There was recently this article about Linus Torvalds’ issues with rustfmt, which prompted others to voice their agreement with his sentiment online.
Yesterday someone pointed out how rustfmt is effectively unmaintained with basically no activity on the repository for months.
The contributors graph shows a similar story - there is essentially no development happening on rustfmt, it seems.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/style-guide/index.html#small-items
What does this mean?
What does Linus when he says
rustfmtcheck?cargo fmt check? A util I can’t find with a simple search? Maybe they have makefile targets or sth for it?The concerns raised by Linus make sense to me, but should be simple to solve. The small items description already mentions variance, and the need for tools to decide. So shouldn’t it be a simple configuration change?
I think it’s a script they added to do some sort of check with rustfmt.