[Novashi]

Ancillary point: there was too much coding standards as tribal knowledge in this, and a lot of cases.

Many times developers get held to standards that they didn’t know existed. This still triggers developers to feel bad about their work (or themselves). It’s usually after someone has left that they find out some ‘standard’ only exists for that particular company.

It’s hard to make global standards, but company standards are easily do-able without having to endlessly specify every coding situation. What the standard doesn’t cover should be addressed in code review or before.

Sometimes languages come with standards (C# coding standards are better than JavaScript standards, for example) and those can be a good proxy or starting point.