If you look at a language like Go, it's rare to find a project not using the standard gofmt. PSR-12 states that "the benefit of this guide is not in the rules t

If you look at a language like Go, it's rare to find a project not using the standard gofmt. PSR-12 states that "the benefit of this guide is not in the rules themselves but the sharing of those rules". The guidelines to use single quotes and tabs vs spaces exist for the sake of consistency, to remove that subjective argument from the conversation.