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 format

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.