Re: .clang-format: how useful, how often used, and how well maintained?

> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>
>> Yeah, then in that case, we probably want to ship some sort of container
>> and script that can do that.  Our default Rust target is Debian stable,
>> so that seems like a decent target if we need to pick a distro.  It's
>> also a very common distro used in containers, so it's widely available
>> to contributors using container-based development environments.

>> I still think that if we're going to have this functionality and expect
>> it to be used, we need to make it the default, build appropriate
>> tooling, and check it in CI.  If it's not fire-and-forget, people won't
>> use it.
>
> There probably needs some balancing act, as I already pointed out,
> what clang-format gives often do not make sense, and the point is
> that they are not about styles (where we can safely say "no style is
> liked by everybody") but about how readable the result is (which
> sometimes is subjective but more often it is not).  Until the tool
> and its configuration is polished enough, blindly applying the
> result with fire-and-forget mentality will degrade the quality of
> our codebase.