Rubocop in Ruby has the great trailing commas in hash literals debate. That is what has solidly convinced me that programming languages themselves, like the co

Rubocop in Ruby has the great trailing commas in hash literals debate. That is what has solidly convinced me that programming languages themselves, like the compiler, absolutely need to fuck off with the rigid style proscriptions. There does need to be a solid, configurable linter so that any given codebase can have its own strongly held and automatically corrected opinions. I don't trust any one person or a cabal to determine style for everyone using the language though. When it comes to something like that Javascript semicolon debate, the way to solve it is linters with a flag for either set of people, so they can be their own dictators over their own codebase.