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Sure, but the issue with prettier is that it goes beyond style and also mangles semantic details. That's their explicit design choice - they feel that conforming formatting in all cases is more important than preserving semantic information about code, and that devs should add "// prettier-ignore" comments to every line of code with semantic details that prettier would throw away.



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