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Re:Code Smells: Iteration by chillydawg on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:16AM (#15082136)
It's obvious to anyone with a CS (or similar) degree, but may not be to someone who is learning to code from various tutorials. Having hints like this in your IDE can greatly improve the quality of your code and help you learn.
Re:Code Smells: Iteration by dionian on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:08PM (#15082654)
People with CS degree and decades of real world experience still benefit from automated code analyses. We deal with systems with millions of lines of code...
Re:Code Smells: Iteration by mikeash on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:55AM (#15082527)
Exactly, this is pretty clearly aimed at beginner/intermediate programmers who haven't entirely figured out how to decide when to use List versus Set versus Map. It's probably obvious to the typical HN reader, but valuable for the target audience. Might not belong here, although the fact that it's currently at #3 on the front page suggests there's enough interest in it.