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by mchaver 86 days ago
> And there is the problem. Then you start arguing about brace positions and function names and whether simple data classes should have docstrings on properties or not.

In my 15 years of experience I have not worked at a place like this. Those are distractions. Anytime something about style has been brought up, the solution was to just enforce a linter/pre-commit process/blacklist for certain functions, etc. It can easily be automated. When those tools don't exist for particular ecosystems we made our own.