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Re:Things People Eventually Learn About JavaScript Projects by delecti on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:18PM (#17804070)
At first I read this and thought "well nobody probably thinks that exact thought, but lots of people think they help you avoid mistakes". Then I scrolled down and read a comment that said:

> A couple of those points could be boiled down to "use a strict linter with most of the rules turned on".

Now I'm not so sure.

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Re:Things People Eventually Learn About JavaScript Projects by munchbunny on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:37PM (#17804212)
I saw someone else on HN use the word "glib", which I think applies here. It has a kernel of truth and sounds good, but there are very obvious reasons why "it passes the linter" is an insufficient condition for good code.
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