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by throwawa14223 826 days ago
I'm arguing for a higher bar. A programming language doesn't need a style czar proposing what is and is not idiomatic. The grammar of the programming language already does that, and we need to trust people to do engineering and decide for themselves how to use that grammar.
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  > we need to trust people to do engineering and decide for themselves how to use that grammar.
i agree with this very much, but one snag point in a lot of projects is when people do pull-request reviews and there are disagreements about "what is readable" or "easy to understand" then a lot of time gets wasted going back and forth so having a style-czar approved format can make things smoother because there isn't much to argue about any more