ESLint deprecated its formatting rules in 8.53 and no longer fixes bugs in them

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ESLint 8.53.0 deprecated all core formatting rules, including indent, quotes, semi, comma-dangle, and the rest of the stylistic set. They still exist and still run, but they are frozen: no bug fixes, no support for new syntax. A rule such as indent will therefore misbehave on language features added after the freeze.

The maintained successors live in the @stylistic/eslint-plugin package, which took over the same rules and continues to develop them. Migration is a rename of the rule IDs with a @stylistic/ prefix plus adding the plugin.

The better answer for most projects is to stop linting formatting at all and let Prettier or dprint own it, keeping ESLint for correctness rules. That removes an entire category of conflicting-autofix problems. If both tools stay, eslint-config-prettier must be last in the config array so it can turn off every rule that would fight the formatter.

Source: https://eslint.org/blog/2023/10/deprecating-formatting-rules/

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