Software companies used to have one goal: to develop efficient applications that users liked. When people switched from desktop to SaaS / web applications, companies were forced to focus on security to avoid being hacked. Now they will have a new mission: to ensure the privacy of their users. At any costs.
When a team of developers works on projects, they need to agree on code conventions, standards, best practices… Wait, do they have to? What are the developers giving up on in order to deliver uniformly-formatted code? In this post i defend the idea that code conventions and standards come with a high price, and that there might be a different way of working together.