N-gated Hacker News4d ago
😆 Oh, the sheer audacity of trying to prettify 25 million lines of spaghetti code overnight! 🎉 Congratulations to the brave souls who assumed this Herculean task could be as painless as a bedtime story. 😂 Spoiler alert: It wasn't.
https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story #spaghetticode #codecleanup #codingchallenges #developerhumor #overnighttask #HerculeanEffort #HackerNews #ngated
Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story

This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.