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For example rust and go both have a ‘fmt’ command that is pretty much built into the tooling.

Go programs won’t even compile if your code isn’t styled correctly with gofmt.

I know this feels pretty restrictive, but I feel like the language could benefit from some standard coding style.

Also right now swift has so many different tools for formatting/linting code. I feel like having all that standardized would also be great.

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I agree, having it built into the toolchain would be great. The point that makes it the most appealing to me is being able to easily require contributors to run swift-format before submitting a PR. Cause at the moment that means they have to install the tool which is not a completely smooth process. I think this would also make adding formatting capabilities to the language server a lot easier cause there wouldn’t be the current issues around needing to include it as a binary dependency iirc (which would only support darwin).

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+1

Having become used to the way Go has this, swift-format would be great to have built-in :+1:

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