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I really dislike the formatting with a space between function name and arguments

    function foo (a, b) {

compared to the more common:

    function foo(a, b) {

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For better or for worse this is part of the "Standard Style": https://www.npmjs.com/package/standard

It always seemed like an odd choice to me that would make people less likely to adopt it.

Important emphasis on the quotation marks around the word standard. From the readme:

> But this isn't a real web standard!

> Of course it's not! The style laid out here is not affiliated with any official web standards groups, which is why this repo is called standard/standard and not ECMA/standard.

> The word "standard" has more meanings than just "web standard" :-)

I’m not a fan of the naming, but I could also be biased because I disagree with some of the formatting rules.

Unfortunately in the JS community you cannot say these things without being punished. If you do anything else than strict eslint with "airbnb settings", or default prettier settings, your head goes off! Don't ever say this to your JS team mate. It's a very rigid community if it comes to these futilities.

This is... puzzling. Where do you see these attitudes? Both ways are perfectly cromulent and it's fine for people to have opinions.

In my years of JS dev the main thing I've seen from the community is "pick a style and stick to it. Be consistent." And that's pretty typical and sage advice of all programming.

The reason to downvote parent is that it's bringing up a tired debate. We may as well discuss tabs vs. spaces while we're at it.

If I remember correctly it used to be the case that every JavaScript repo came with it's own eccentric style. I'm certainly guilty of that. Now -- when we have these style "standard" style guides -- we've sort of settled on 3 or 4 competing standards. None of them look particularly bad (or at least not worse then my personal style cerca 2012).

Don't get me wrong. We still engage in stupid bikeshedding about semi vs. no semi, tabs vs. spaces etc. but I feel overall we've embiggened our spirit when it comes to code style debates.

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