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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by CapsAdmin on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:28AM (#42963269)
I know this sounds insane, but I used to work on some big svn codebase with many developers, without any fancy formating tools AND no one cared about consistent style.

One interesting thing that happened was the ability to guess who wrote what code purely based on coding style.

Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by bobthepanda on Thursday February 06, 2025 @12:25PM (#42964478)
This happens to some degree in linted code bases since there’s more than one way to write the same code, and people reach for what they like