Style guides are the worst to me. Taking some of the small joys left in programming away, while making you feel like a cog at the same time. Especially since ma

Style guides are the worst to me. Taking some of the small joys left in programming away, while making you feel like a cog at the same time. Especially since many are outdated or just plain wrong, and very difficult to change once established. Tools that take the AST and output standardized code for peer review and documentation sounds a little better. It would not deal well with the only human problem really worth having a style guide for - naming things. But at least humans aren't forced to jump through hoops. And the naming thing possibly can be settled with an interface that asks something like - "what do you want everyone to call the 'BitWarper' symbol?", for all named symbols. But well written software is no place to express individuality - we just want it to work and not make our eyes bleed when we have to fix it! Even better then, just have machines generate and test all the code based on systems of higher order rules and style guides in situations where factory manufactured code is necessary. The outputs should be reasonable if the requirements are well specified (NASA style). Humans can come in after and do the real fun work in optimizing and finding clever hacks (if environment is not mission critical and such liberty can be safely taken). Having humans program character by character, with their bare hands, while also suppressing creativity, is unnecessary in this Post-Industrial Age.