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What would the world be like without autoformat and other tooling... I wouldn't want to know. 😇
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@PonySlaystation
It was pretty manual, you relied on the compiler and didn't care quite as much about person to person styles. You generally got more time to do your work too. -
@SortOfTested Yes, but I meant it more like: Imagine if all code had to be written without autoformat, IntelliSense etc.... I'd think of random plane crashes, office fires, crashing car... 😄
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@PonySlaystation
I lived that before time 😋 it was definitely more primitive. People tended to be better engineers though.
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