I've been working on Julia for a week now and wanted to add some pre-commit hooks to the module I have started creating. One of the strengths of the pre-commit library for Python is the ability to create hooks for other languages. I didn't find any existing hooks dedicated to Julia although there are a few simpler hooks to handle whitespace etc that could be applied. I decided to investigate trying to build some Julia-specific hooks from scratch.

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I started using the pre-commit framework a while back on my projects but only with a very basic setup on pretty simple codebases. Common uses are applying code formatters like black or to run static type checking with mypy.

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At a meetup I attended in Manchester earlier this year (shout out to the North West Ruby User Group) I had an interesting conversation with a guy who was the founder of a startup. When I asked about his business model, he looked a little sheepish and explained that it was a SaaS offering that allowed clubs and schools to manage subscriptions and billing.

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