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What was their justification for being like that?

Sometimes I read these things and end up saying to myself "Wow, that company just literally hates being productive"

>What was their justification for being like that?

The more tools people are allowed to install and use, the less standardised software development. Meanwhile we didn't even have common source code formatting pattern and single Java class could be formatted with tabs, 2 spaces and 4 spaces.

Not necessarily. On my team at work we have people using Sublime Text, VS Code and vim, but all 3 (+ our CI) plug into ESLint and TypeScript for ensuring style coherence.

Why don't you encourage people to use their linters of choice? Why expect everyone to use ESLint?

If you want style coherence, the same linter with the same options makes sense. “Use your preferred linter” won't produce style coherence.

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