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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by aequitas on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:21PM (#25334285)
> I used to care terribly about style, until I realized I just care about consistency and readability. Otherwise I don't give a shit, and having a tool available to everyone makes such a difference.

I had the same thing. Also consistency and automation is what's really important, as it extinguishes every need for style discussions. Because you can trivially convert from the project style to personal styles and vice versa using things like Git attributes[0], as long as it is consistent.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes

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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by FalconSensei on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:32PM (#25354242)
yeah, same with me. That's why I love prettier. I care more about just having a pattern that's applied automatically, than I care about personal preferences.
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