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I see no reason to accommodate to worthless programmers who aren't able to read or format the code that's sent to them. They can lint it themselves if they want.


It's not about accomodating people, it's about consistency in codebases when many people with different preferences or styles are working on it. You just eliminate the cognitive overhead so people can develop intuition about how the code works and flows.


Good, let huge companies do that. Now this lint madness is pushed onto everybody who wants to program, including individual hobbyists. And many of them are trying to learn coding and get their compiling sabotaged by the linter, not knowing it's something they can opt out of.




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