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This is the description of at least 50% of the C++ projects where I was involved with. Only missing the language lawyers citing paragraphs of the standard at least once a meeting.

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Oh how I miss the language lawyers in C++. Some really elevated it to a high calling. </s>

They got obsoleted by clang-tidy.

The power of linters to reign in the bike shedding and pointless nitpicking in pull requests should be mentioned more often. I recall that once I had the misfortune to have a junior developer in a team who was highly ambitious but low-skilled , and their way to claim high standards and attention to detail was to fill everyone's PRs with remarks bickering over whitespaces while citing his personal style guide that the guy was keeping in a personal Google Docs document.

That nonsense stopped the very moment I onboarded clang-format, but the guy unexplainably refused to run the tool on personal PRs. Insane.

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