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They aren't the same at all A shared style guide is an external impetus to adjust behavior. It comes with external accountability, and also an implicit unders
by bluefirebrand 2y ago
They aren't the same at all
A shared style guide is an external impetus to adjust behavior. It comes with external accountability, and also an implicit understanding that violating the shared expectation may bring consequences
"Everyone should just be less anal" is expecting an internal impetus to adjust behavior. There no external accountability, and there's no expectation that failing to do so has consequences
> The other issue is that linters/formatters don't "solve" all formatting/stylistic choices.
80% of a solution is better than 0%
- The_Colonel 2y agoThe point where this is the same is "everyone just needs to agree on a common style". > 80% of a solution is better than 0% I'm not sure if it's 80% or rather 20%, I guess it's a POV / arbitrary number. In any case, this is far from a solved problem, while I often see in these type of discussions the idea that auto-formatters solve formatting/code style problem. "Just use black" while dismissing the idea that the rest has to be tackled informally / culturally.