You can't force everyone who edits your code to have linters and warnings turned on. Not everyone follows bests practices.

Re: awkwardness, it doesn't feel awkward at all to me; given that Erlang and Elixir use assignment for destructuring and pattern-matching, Yoda conditionals feel very natural to me in comparison.

For example, this is valid Elixir code:

    foo = {1, 2}
    
    bar = if {baz, 2} = foo do
            525600
          end
    
    IO.inspect foo  # prints {1,2}
    IO.inspect bar  # prints 525600
    IO.inspect baz  # prints 1

   mString != null && mString.equals("test")

   "test".equals(mString)

Intended usage of if(a=b) should be written as if((a=b)). Don't know what tool you use at work or at home, but most static code analysers will point you that. Try SonarQube at least.

I feel as if that can rephrased "Don't do it because it is not done." A left-hand side constant is a convention that can have practical benefits in limited cases. Which at least should merit consideration.