Formatting with gofmt

Go delegates formatting to the machine to minimize contention and preserve developer time. The gofmt program enforces a standard style of indentation and vertical alignment, handling comments and structure field alignment automatically; go fmt is the same tool operating at the package level. If gofmt's output seems incorrect, rearrange the program or file a bug about gofmt rather than working around the tool. Indentation relies on tabs, which gofmt emits by default, with spaces used only if necessary. Go imposes no line length limit; long lines may be wrapped and indented with an additional tab. Control structures like if, for, and switch require no parentheses, and the operator precedence hierarchy is shorter and clearer than in C or Java. All Go code in the standard packages has been formatted with gofmt, ensuring consistency across the ecosystem. Scope: Go. Reviewed October 4, 2026.