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It depends on how important you think it is to optimize for future readers or maintainers of the code. I weigh that pretty heavily and a do think relatively minor style issues impose a tax once they're pervasive in a codebase.

Tooling is great, but I think there are a lot of style issues that aren't readily enforceable with linters - commenting, naming, control flow, abstraction, etc.




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