The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters
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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> your others
And yes I understand the value of linters :p
And yes I understand the value of linters :p
consistency?
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.
Yes, consistently formatted code tends to be easier to read and tends to help teams be (slightly) more efficient.