[richie5um]

I completely agree. What is, for most programming languages / code, a huge waste of time and huge amount of annoyance becomes something you no longer have to deal with.

Having choices can be nice, but it introduces a huge amount of cognitive load. And, really, if we all just use the same format, we'll all (eventually) get used to it.

We really do have better things to deal with than formatting style.

[icebraining]

It also helps if you want to write code conversion tools, like gofix. I once stopped writing such a tool for a Python project because it was a pain trying to change only the affected lines, while keeping the idiosyncratic syntax of the rest of the files unaffected.

(By the way, for people trying to do the same, I recommend the redbaron library, which makes it much easier to handle: https://github.com/PyCQA/redbaron)