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The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters

3 points by Goladus ↗ HN
Your preferred coding style is not a "best practice" simply because you've written a parser to automatically detect deviations or because your others on your team agree to follow one convention for the sake of consistency.

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Goladus
> your others

And yes I understand the value of linters :p

Digg_mov
consistency?
bzlw
IMO, this is biggest reason to use linters. I don’t really mind what the “standard” is, as long as everyone is using the same one.
Goladus
Yes, consistently formatted code tends to be easier to read and tends to help teams be (slightly) more efficient.
muzani
It's helping me a lot searching for, say, "thing" versus 'thing' or url vs URL.

I don't mind whether the coding style is ¿question? or simply question?, but I don't want to see both in the same file.