They are comparing against a mix of “trust me bro” and “i’ve heard that…”. The local classic

I’ve been building up my Helix setup, and its been fantastic. Got tired of constantly fighting corporate stuff

Reminds me of this masterpiece

Not necessarily applicable to just rustfmt, but software often suffers from the “last known commit xyz time ago” issue. If a project is functional and mostly complete, is it an issue?

A lot of what Linus complained about is 100% valid though. I prefer the default formatting style for myself, but in a codebase this massive, merging things becomes a pain quite fast