[j-scott]

> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos

Stressing over these things is certainly a Sisyphean task.

However, investing in automating and standardizing the application of these things every time a new repo is created eliminates an entire class of problems and saves you all sorts of trouble down the road.

[meaydinli]

I am one of those weirdos that like to work on "un-sexy" things behind the scenes which hopefully makes the life of my colleagues a bit better with every attempt. I don't think it is necessary for small teams, and may even be considered a waste of time, but once a team is sufficiently big and spread out, I think a few people working in the background, keeping watch of things, cleaning up after people, proactively improving stuff, creating and enforcing rules and standards is very beneficial and necessary for a team's next growth spurt.

[jweir]

Everyone uses the same formatter & options (which really should have no options, but that ins't the reality for most languages). The formatter rules - move on.

[woooooo]

Primarily it's protecting yourself from those weirdos by pre-empting them, though.