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I think "use whatever style you want" is a fair ethos for personal projects but the truth is it never works for teams. If organizations allowed that you'd have
by nkozyra 12y ago
I think "use whatever style you want" is a fair ethos for personal projects but the truth is it never works for teams.
If organizations allowed that you'd have no conventions and codebases would be a mess for all involved.
Years ago I moved from_underscores toCamelCase but I'm not vehemently passionate about it and there are plenty of cases where I need to go back to match_conventions.
- untog 12y agoWell, sure, when part of a team, make a decision and go with it. But most of the time these debates on HN just disappear down a hole of people arguing past each other and caring far too much about something that doesn't matter.
- lmm 12y ago> I think "use whatever style you want" is a fair ethos for personal projects but the truth is it never works for teams. Citation needed; my experience is just the opposite (it works much better than trying to specify some kind of organization-wide standard).