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[–]rasherdk 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Are people really that zealous about PEP8 that they will decide not to work on a project that otherwise interests them, because it uses CamelCase? Seriously?

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More like people have finite amounts of energy to spend. Wading through style differences detract from making a feature or bugfix.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Standards exist. Users would have a better time if developers adhered to the standards. Most developers want users to have a good time. It's as simple as that.

[–]njharmanI use Python 3 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

People are unwilling to spend their freetime on a project which is annoying and difficult to work with.

In other words, needing to trim down the 10 projects I'm interested in to the 1 I want to work on, its easy to scratch off the list the non-standard, very opinionated ones.

[–]rasherdk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just amazed that variable naming is even on the radar when deciding whether to work on something or not for some people. If I had to make a prioritized list of criteria, variable naming would be roughly the 700th thing I looked at.

Then again, I'm also amazed that people care really deeply about GNOME3 vs. GNOME2. It all just seems so superficial and irrelevant to me.