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by CodingJeebus 252 days ago
The challenge is that it’s easy to find fundamental disagreements on a team on how a codebase should be styled, especially when the language itself doesn’t provide much guidance on styling convention. When that happens, it’s easy for a debate around styling to go on without ever finding consensus.

I’m way more open to adopting coding style that’s not my personal taste as long as it’s consistent and tools like prettier really help with that.

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I can see how that would be a challenge. I think the key may be to focus on identifying which things are just a given developer's preference and which are essential to their productivity. Like you said, I'm more than happy to adopt a style that isn't my personal taste. The problem comes when the style prevents me from doing my job.