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A stricter gofmt

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2020-11-04 · latest 2026-07-26

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  1. …evidenced by the existence of golines[0] or gofumpt[1]. 0: https://github.com/golangci/golines/ 1: https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt
    comment by CrompyBlompers · 2026-07-26 · in Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
  2. Good news: there are tools like https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt which fork gofmt and enforce stricter rules (while remaining invariant under gofmt).
    comment by duskwuff · 2025-09-08 · in Formatting code should be unnecessary
  3. …are some absolutely fantastic additions in 'gofumpt' that I do hope wind up in 'gofmt' --- [1]: https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt#roadmap
    comment by usrme · 2023-02-11 · in Gofumpt: A stricter gofmt
  4. you might want to check out gofumpt too, if you haven't already: https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt
    comment by llimllib · 2021-07-08 · in Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool
  5. https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt Drop in replacement for `go fmt` and probably does most of what you want.
    comment by sneak · 2020-11-04 · in Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)