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The biggest source-breaking change on the near-term horizon (which is still in progress) is compile-time enforcement of concurrency safety.
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That’s different from a more structured template-style language like JSX, where there are only a few valid places to embed JS expressions so it isn’t too challenging to make them all look good.
We also don’t want to look at how the code is formatted coming in because one of Prettier’s goals is to make sure everyone’s code looks the same, which wouldn’t be possible if we looked at how the input is formatted too much.