🤔 code style
- can view "code style guides" and "idiomatic code" norms in programming communities as group culture / aesthetic values / morals
- ie. "this is what we as a group find proper / good"
- (many are arbitrary, so, purely aesthetic judgements)
- includes even broad concepts like "a preference for functional programming"
- they spread and trigger like other norms (memetic osmosis; I need a good term for this)
- there is practical benefit from this "group think"
- cross-legibility (can read each other's code)
- sometimes it's performance related
- ...do our other cultural/aesthetic/group norms have utility beyond group-cohesion?