$20k bounty was claimed

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Post by conaclos » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 4:50 PM UTC

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Post by namanyayg » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:00 PM UTC

While porting to Rust has been a trend, as Prettier runs on every save, the speed boosts will be significant. I'll be trying out Biome soon. Congrats to the Biome project!

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Post by syrusakbary » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:03 PM UTC

I'm incredibly excited for this. The Biome team has been remarkably fast on achieving 95% compatibility with Prettier [1].

This will help to bring maximum speed to formatting Javascript thanks to Rust, following the ruff (Python formatter) trend.

Just as a note, as it was not mentioned in the article, Wasmer [2] also participated with a $2,500 bounty to compile Biome to WASIX [3], and it has been awesome to see how their team has been working to achieve this as well... hopefully we'll get Biome running in Wasmer soon!

Also congrats to the Algora team, as they have been doing very good work with their landing and trying to help on the challenge moving forward [4].

Keep up the great work!!

[1] https://github.com/biomejs/biome/issues/720

[2] https://wasmer.io/

[3] https://wasix.org/

[4] https://console.algora.io/challenges/prettier

Re: $20k bounty was claimed

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Post by uoaei » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:05 PM UTC

namanyayg wrote: post #2

While porting to Rust has been a trend, as Prettier runs on every save, the speed boosts will be significant. I'll be trying out Biome soon. Congrats to the Biome project!

This effort reflects the excitement in the Python community around `ruff`. Excited to see efficiency and speed gains with a wide impact.

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Post by ehutch79 » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:08 PM UTC

I'm looking through the docs, specifically the formatter stuff ( https://biomejs.dev/formatter ), and it feels like all the examples are backwards?

Am I missing stuff?

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Post by jrockway » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

That's interesting. I've been using "deno fmt" as of late and it's been fine for me.

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/tools/formatter

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Post by andrewstuart » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

The post says the reason they did this was to motivate themselves to make the javascript version better?

Strange.

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Post by dewey » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

> One question you are probably wondering is why would the Prettier team fund another project!? In practice, Prettier has been the dominant code formatter for JavaScript and as a result of a lack of competition, there has been little incentive to push on performance and fix various edge cases.

I was indeed wondering that but the answer doesn't really answer the question for me. Why not set a bounty to improve Prettier instead of building a competing project just to increase the motivation to improve Prettier? Or is the end goal to shut down the Prettier project and encourage people to switch to the Rust based one? Seems like an unnecessary fragmentation of an already confusing landscape.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something though.

Re: $20k bounty was claimed

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Post by conaclos » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

ehutch79 wrote: post #5

I'm looking through the docs, specifically the formatter stuff ( https://biomejs.dev/formatter ), and it feels like all the examples are backwards? Am I missing stuff?

What do you mean by "backwards"?

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Post by nicoburns » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

Speed is always welcome, but I just wish prettier was a little less opinionated. Specifically around line length, it will just not leave my formatting alone. I find prettier formatted code much less readable than unformatted code, and this isn't a problem I have with other code formatters like rustfmt.