Maintaining code quality on projects where there are many developers contributing is a tough assignment. How many times have you tried to contribute to an open-source project only to find the maintainer rejecting your pull request on the grounds of some invisible coding standard? How many times as a maintainer of an open-source project (or internal) have you had a hard time reading code because there were careless tabs/spaces mixed, if statements with no brackets, and other such things.
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