The SMBC comic mocks the people for not being self-aware enough to realize that they are causing their own problem by being apathetic.
> "I'm not good at this because I don't try, so I won't try"
> "Girls don't like me because I have bad hygiene, so why should I bother with hygiene?"
etc.
This would only apply to what I wrote if my code was disappearing because it's not formatted to pass a linter. You and I both know that this isn't the reason code gets deleted. It gets deleted because it gets refactored, or the feature/product it's implementing gets killed.
Furthermore, code quality is not the same thing as code style.
> code quality is not the same thing as code style.
I did misparaphrase you. My apologies for that. Fixed.
But as for the other argument, I think the comic's examples and your case represent feedback loops in which two factors are both cause and consequence of each other.
I believe you that you started not caring about code style after you noticed your code tends not to last. Similarly, life was short already before bacon existed. Would you agree that your code is more likely to dissapper now that you don't care about style?
No, I don't think it matters. Obviously there's a line you have to draw, like tabs vs spaces, but I don't care if you place your commas differently from me. Code being so ugly it's hard to read is a problem, but arbitrary fashion is not worth the time.
