Code formatting is the subject of millions of fiery, nerdy debates. Developers love to argue about code style because we read code a lot. The style matters because it affects readability.
We have examples of communities that benefit from a shared code style.
The Go programming language has gofmt (i.e., “go format”) baked in as a core tool in the language. Their core team decided on a set of rules to use and everyone gets the benefit of reading code that looks very similar.
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