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The cost to adopting a style checker (if one exists for your language) is very low.

Even if one doesn't exist, they aren't very complex -- e.g. Facebook thought it was appropriate to create one for C++

https://code.facebook.com/posts/729709347050548/under-the-ho...

The costs are more around build process and compile time. Whereas the costs for wholesale language migration include the risk of not being able to ship or hire.



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