gofmt
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 30, 2025first mention
Jul 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I love gofmt, rustfmt, ruff.”
“The best part about gofmt is there is no discussion about how to format Go code.”
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“the right execution is in the style of 'go fmt' with Go”
Caveats and dissent
“gofmt is not opinionated enough”
Threads where it came up
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Also written as go fmt. Data: gofmt.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“I love gofmt, rustfmt, ruff.”
“gofmt is not opinionated enough”
“The best part about gofmt is there is no discussion about how to format Go code.”
“The comparison with gofmt makes no sense.”
“most IDEs use gofmt and if your golangci-lint uses a different gofmt version”
“the right execution is in the style of 'go fmt' with Go”
“I use gofmt auto formatting in my editor”