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I've been curious how much position of curly braces in C derived languages affects open source popularity. Nowadays it seems like placing the opening bracket o

by city41 17y ago

I've been curious how much position of curly braces in C derived languages affects open source popularity. Nowadays it seems like placing the opening bracket on its own line is more popular. I have found people are unusually turned off by these choices. ie, if you prefer the bracket on its own line, code where it is at the end of the line really bothers you, and vice versa. I wonder how much this affects adoption of new projects.

boucher 17y ago
In an ideal world (and apparently this is already a feature in some Java IDEs) you would just tell your editor how you wanted curly braces and whitespace formatted, and it would always show it to you that way. My understanding of the existing implementation, I believe its in IDEA, is that it will do this, and save new changes back in whatever style had the highest frequency when the file was opened. I'm a fan of having project wide style guidelines. But, if you seriously don't use open source code because of where the curly braces are, you're being pretty stupid.