4 Aug
2023
4 Aug
'23
9:04 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 9:58 PM Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What we've done on my current project is pretty
much equivalent to the route Go chose.
Go has go fmt; doesn't matter what you personally believe, just run that pre-commit,
and you get a consistent style. For Python we use black. Same idea. It's not what
everyone would have chosen--in fact, precisely what it does is not what *anyone* on the
project, probably, would have chosen--but the fact is, it does something sane and pretty
readable, and then there's no fighting over style.
This.
I despised Google's C++ style standards, but I respected them because
they allowed Google to scale to hundreds of millions of lines of C++
code that was at least intelligible to more or less anyone who worked
there. After a couple of months, people stop noticing the sharp edges
and differences from their personal styles.
The decades spent arguing over where to put the braces seem wasted, in
retrospect.
- Dan C.