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> there are a few code formatters for Haskell, but nobody really uses them

I haven't run a survey, but I get the impression that code formatters are widely used in the Haskell world, especially Ormolu and Fourmolu.



They are in fact not widely used.

Ormolu and Fourmolu

That's only one formatter; the latter is a fork of the former... which is the in-house formatting tool of one particular consulting firm. It has only existed since 2018, and is said to be mainly a response to golang/rust people trying to impose their culture on the Haskell world.

Pointing at ormolu is kinda like saying that formatters are popular in the Java world because google-java-format exists. The fact that that project exists says more about the company that created it than the community around the language it operates on.


> They are in fact not widely used.

Ah, as a fact it presumably has some form of evidence that demonstrates it. Would you mind sharing that evidence?




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