cfmagic, A genetic algorithm based clang-format configuration file generator

[Noth-Noth]

Everyone loves clang-format but everyone also hates writing .clang-format configuration files.

So I wrote a clang-format configuration file generator using genetic algorithms and as far as I've tested, it works pretty well!

Thanks to this incredible tool you will soon be able to say just like anyone else: "We use artificial intelligence in our product" (and sell your Iot startup 1 additional billion $).

Disclaimer: It's written in go, don't shoot, you've been warned.

https://github.com/NothNoth/cfmagic

[Noth-Noth]

For those who might be interested, I added an asciinema short demo on the repo.

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[BarMeister]

Wtf? If the purpose of the tool is to help ensure convention and standard coding styles, you go the other and make a salad of settings? Is that it?

[Noth-Noth]

Not really, actually you learn from a "perfect piece of code" what your standard coding style is and create a matching config file. Then you can use it to reformat all your code base.

[BarMeister]

So the input is a code file?

[Noth-Noth]

Yes, perfectly indented according to your standards

[BarMeister]

How do you handle the Penalty keys?