[Twirrim]

I've grown to be a big fan of opinionated linters like gofmt, rustfmt, black etc. They avoid so much time spent disagreeing about code formatting and personal preferences. Instead engineers can do mutual grumbling sessions about weird formatting choices they see it do, and move on.

[guappa]

black sucks. Everytime you bump version it will reformat all of your already formatted code.

If your product maintains different versions you won't be able to cherry pick changes across versions.

[spc476]

If I didn't want to have opinions, I would join a cult.

[Twirrim]

You're welcome to your opinions, I don't stop engineers I'm working with from having opinions about the code formatting. It's still going to be formatted by the opinionated formatter.

Having one gets us into the "Well, it's not quite what I want but at least it's consistent", and it gets rid of arguments that don't really provide anywhere near the amount of value engineers feel they do. There are almost always significantly better and more productive things to be spending time figuring out.

[krior]

save your opinions for the things that really matter instead of another bikeshed to build! (not telling you to shut up, btw :) )