Sonar: code formatting nagware for Java. I spent a few months being very strict with code style and it has made me permanently a more productive programmer. I

Sonar: code formatting nagware for Java. I spent a few months being very strict with code style and it has made me permanently a more productive programmer. I used to look at my code and wonder how to improve it, now I know what to do until I'm happy with it. I've learnt to apply this to other languages. Sonar showed me how to make code consistent, that is easier to read, write, grep and work with. An unexpected result of being anal about whitespace for a few months was productivity with large code bases. I no longer have Sonar itself in my workflow. But I defo feel that tool made me a better programmer. This is not really a recomendation for Sonar but a recomendation to go find a relevant code style tool and work with it until it you are no longer learning code formatting and you are learning code clarity.