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Re:How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You by user5994461 on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:23PM (#19230526)
>>> the new coding style is better, more efficient, and would even prevent mistakes going forwards.

Except that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all. Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables and forcing brackets on new lines make no practical differences.

All the time to rewrite hundreds of files was just churn.

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Re:How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You by stcredzero on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:59PM (#19234898)
Except that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all.

RAII is tons better than older memory management styles in C++.

The newer styles of C++ initialization are tons better than the older ones, which seem to inevitably result in a dozen ad-hoc mini-initialization frameworks.

Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables

That is indeed arbitrary and useless.

forcing brackets on new lines

Forcing brackets on new lines is useless. Mandating the use of brackets has been shown to be very useful for reducing bugs.

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