Edit: This comment was based on misreading the parent comment. I've left it up, but I should have been more careful. You've set yourself up to always be the ou

Edit: This comment was based on misreading the parent comment. I've left it up, but I should have been more careful. You've set yourself up to always be the outlier. To always need to have that discussion or tweak the rules on every project you work with. You've increased the overhead of onboarding anyone used to the default style. You've increased the overhead of you working on anyone else's projects that is more likely to have the default style. All of that is friction introduced because you haven't learned to live with the default style. Do I love that the default C# rules put a new line before the else block? No, but I've learned to live with it so that I can work on all manner of projects without fussing over that style option every time. By adhering to default rules, you never have to have the endless arguments such as tabs vs spaces again. ( Spaces won, and the tabbers got over it fairly quickly once it was the default in almost all formatters. )