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 title = 'Dart Format Stupidity'
 date = 2026-02-02T21:19:31+01:00
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 author = 'Janis Hutz'
 tags = [ 'Development' ]
 categories = [ 'Rants' ]
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 Dart format is *really f\*ing stupid*
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 But, if you degrade the developer experience so much by forcing a 2 space indent
 (which, according to some polls, more developers dislike it than there are developers who either don't care or like it, combined).
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+So, this brings me to the problem:
+I really enjoy having my own coding style. I can however still appreciate an opinionated formatter, but only if you can at least change the indentation style.
+Primarily so, because my editor is set to 4 space indents, it is annoying having to set up an `autocmd` to switch to 2 space indents when using dart.
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+Thus, I am not going to use flutter for ConductorCalc as I had intended, but will probably use `NativeScript-Vue`, as it seems to tick just about every box.