I don’t understand why adding a subcommand to uv is being considered bloat.
uv is already a complex tool, but it has excellent documentation. Adding a straightforward, self-explanatory subcommand like this doesn’t seem out of place.
We already develop a formatter: Ruff (https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff). Ruff and uv are built by the same team. `uv format` is just an optional front-end to `ruff format`.
The formatter already exists, my understanding is that this is merely an alias for "uvx ruff"...
> I don’t understand why adding a subcommand to uv is being considered bloat.
It's simple:
- Everything I use and I see: good
- Everything I don't use and I see: bloat
- Everything I use and I don't see: good
- Everything I think I don't use and I don't see: Java
Developing a good and configurable formatter is a project almost as complex as uv's main focus, managing packages. As such it will divert time and attention from its main purpose and the outcome is questionable, considering how many bad formatters are out there. For example the "opinionated" black is terrible and has no awareness of semantics.