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What is childish is holding up one guy's editor preferences as a religious sacrament when 99.9% of your readers have different preferences.

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Well, there's kind of a precedent at least...

> Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.

That's been a major success

It basically revolutionized the entire industry and thank god.

Opinionated standard formatting is now the default.

Unlike formatting preferences, the colours I use in my editor don't effect others. That said I might not mind living in a world where everyone used the same highlighting scheme, as long as it was reasonable ;)

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