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> However, this just locks in a (often substandard) coding style and removes any kind of personality from the code. This is good if you are a manager trying to treat your employees as fungible units of work, but is bad for actually maintaining a codebase.

Is it bad, though? Having most of the code in the codebase look and read consistently feels like a good thing, even if that's not the style that you'd personally prefer. Especially if the formatter does its thing whenever you save a file.




If you want to be treated interchangeably to everyone else in the industry, yes. Otherwise, I don't think that's a good thing for you as a programmer




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