...Any time there's more than one way to do something in code, inconsistencies will creep in. Besides measurably adding to the time it takes to read and comprehend code, inconsistent style across a codebase can hide bugs, often very bad ones. Great tools exist for almost every language to automatically align code to a defined style. Through editor integrations or git pre-commit hooks, a single developer can give themselves a great workflow for automatically dealing with style. Doing this across a team, on the other hand, can be challenging. ...