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In JavaScript, imports sometimes (too often, really) have side effects. I don't know if it makes sense for prettier to do that, at least by default.

I don't have a problem with anything that discourages imports with side effects. You can always ignore[0] any cases where this happens.

In my experience, side-effecting imports are fairly uncommon.

But in any cases, all formatters allow you to selectively disable it for certain liners.

Hopefully uncommon, anyways. Imports with side effects sounds like a nightmare to debug.