[themoat]

We had a "discussion" on which formatter/linter to use for a different language. There were 2 choices and I bet we spend 300 man hours on nonsense. Everyone had to have their say.

You can decide TO use a linter, but then you just get to argue about which linter...

[aphexairlines]

The fact that there are multiple linter tools shouldn't paralyze a group of people for 300 man hours. The Go ecosystem will eventually have choices too. For instance, I think there are a couple of different protobuf implementations for Go already.

[malandrew]

It shouldn't but it does. See Wadler's Law:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law

[tigershark]

Seriously? If something like this happened where I work probably everyone would be let go. Sometimes I kind of envy the freedom of wasting your work time just for nothing... But honestly I still prefer to do something that helps the users rather than measure each other “manhood” in this nonsense...