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by johan_larson 3769 days ago
I don't object to having a style guide. I object to the extent of it. Some rules of good practice make sense. But having a really extensive style guide shifts code review away from what it should be focusing on -- correctness, clarity, efficiency -- towards punctilious enforcement of minutiae.

Here's Google's Java style guide, if you want to have a look yourself: https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html

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When the codebase is so big and you're hiring so many engineers it might be actually a good idea to have such an extensive style guide.