All told, I love site, and I hope it keeps iterating. PHP may be ugly, but it's powerful, and most of its bad reputation comes from good coders having to pick up the pieces from bad coders.
All told, I love site, and I hope it keeps iterating. PHP may be ugly, but it's powerful, and most of its bad reputation comes from good coders having to pick up the pieces from bad coders.
"When various authors collaborate across multiple projects, it helps to have one set of guidelines to be used among all those projects"
Spaces, Tabs, OTBS, whatever. It doesn't matter which one was chosen, just that something was chosen. Ask the Pythonista's what PEP8 did for their developer's ecosystem.
Also it's important to note that that PSR-2 was based off already existing coding standards like Zend's and Symfony's.
I think it's silly to pursue per-language consistency; it's a pipe-dream that just leads to more religious wars over minutia. Per-project (or per-organization) more than suffices.
Reformat their code.
As for "per language consistency", Go does it just fine...