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Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by zauguin on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:07AM (#38708825)
This often leads to extremely annoying codebase because languages trying to enforce styleguides without proper options just leads to inconsistency once any code in another language leads to the codebase.

Just have an options file which is checked in with the code and enforce whatever is set in there works much better. You still avoids all the useless discussions about formatting while also allowing to set sensible settings which are consistent with surrounding technology.

Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by jvanderbot on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:30AM (#38709057)
This is really simple:

* All our code must be linted / formatted

* All their code must be ignored.

Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by mlinhares on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @03:22PM (#38713116)
Not sure I understand this. Do you mean tools like "go fmt" are going to try to format your Java code?