BIRTH OF PRETTIER

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It's been almost 10 years since Prettier was released. This post tells the story of its birth and how technological innovation made an underlying source of tension - spaces versus tabs - no longer a thing. Prettier solved formatting, one of the most controversial engineering topics, in the span of just a few years. It is now rare to see a mainstream programming language that does not have a formatter that's widely adopted by its community.