These religious wars can largely be swept away with one simple, practical question: What is going to result in less noise in pull requests and the commit histor

These religious wars can largely be swept away with one simple, practical question: What is going to result in less noise in pull requests and the commit history, given that nowadays everyone uses a different editor with different configuration defaults, and is going to result in less time in pull requests squabbling over these kinds of formatting issues, given that nowadays everyone uses a different editor with different configuration defaults? Tabs vs. Spaces has a fairly good answer that flows out of this way of looking at things. There is a counter-argument to that answer, but it is invalidated if you move toward conventions for argument lists and chained method calls that are also designed to limit noise in the source control system. IMO, the argument about bracing also has a practical, non-religious answer once you start looking at your coding conventions this way.