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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They might be working on an old codebase with maintainers who yell at you if you try to standardize formatting because "whitespace changes pollute diffs" (smh, programmers who don't know how to configure their diff tools).