gofmt vs Laravel Pint
gofmt
go.devLaravel Pint
laravel.comSide by side
| Figure | gofmt | Laravel Pint |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Code Formatting Tools | 7.8 (#13) | 8.3 (#5) |
| License | Go is an open source project distributed under a BSD-style license. | The Laravel Pint repository identifies Pint as open-source software licensed under the MIT license. |
| Purpose | Gofmt automatically formats Go programs using tabs for indentation and blanks for alignment. | Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer built on PHP CS Fixer. |
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In their own words
gofmt
gofmt is the Go source formatter distributed with Go installations, available on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It formats Go programs using tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. With no path, it reads standard input; given a directory, it processes .go files recursively while skipping files whose names begin with a period. By default, reformatted source is written to standard output. Flags can show differences, list files that need formatting, apply rewrite rules, simplify code, or report all errors. The rewrite option uses patterns and replacements written as valid Go expressions. gofmt can also arrange documentation comments into canonical paragraphs, lists, headings, links, and code blocks. The Go project documents integrations for Vim, Emacs, Eclipse, and Sublime Text, plus Git pre-commit hooks and Mercurial. Since Go 1.18, it reads and formats files concurrently, with memory use limited in proportion to GOMAXPROCS. The executable is equivalent to go fmt. It is free, included in the Go installation, and distributed under a BSD-style license.
Laravel Pint
Laravel Pint has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.