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It's a trade off. We've started using a code formatter recently: the overwhelming majority of the code in our team is more readable because it's so standardised
by biddlesby 7y ago
It's a trade off. We've started using a code formatter recently: the overwhelming majority of the code in our team is more readable because it's so standardised. There are a few sub-optimal lines here and there but I wouldn't trade that for going back to the wild old days.
- greggman3 7y agoThe projects I mentioned above all have style guides. There's no "wild old days". They just don't use a auto formatter because they know there are cases where the auto formatter makes the code less readable and that there are exceptions to every style guide. It's called a style "guide" not a style "law" because it offers guidance which can be ignored when appropriate.