[moonchrome]

>proper abstractions and commonly accepted software engineering best practices

Put 10 senior developers in the room, ask them a question about those practices. You'll probably get 8 variations on a mainstream approach and 2 alternative approaches.

As I'm often switching around stacks I'm shocked how lacking automated tooling is at enforcing basic formatting guidelines in some languages, IMO JavaScript prettify is the best here - it offers so practically no room for subjective tweaks.

For example I'm currently working in C# and it's so much worse in this regard, formatters between IDEs aren't even compatible.

So if something as trivial as formatting is this hard what do you think enforcing style guides and other quality metrics takes ?

In a small young team you can have one or more people steering the ship but when they move on or add more new people even in the best case these guys are trying to guess what the previous team would do to maintain style

[richardwhiuk]

black / gofmt / cargo fmt are all good formatters.