The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters

Posted by Goladus on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:03PM
from the self-post dept.

Your preferred coding style is not a "best practice" simply because you've written a parser to automatically detect deviations or because your others on your team agree to follow one convention for the sake of consistency.

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Re:The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters by Goladus on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:04PM (#21532096)

> your others

And yes I understand the value of linters :p

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Re:The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters by Digg_mov on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:19PM (#21532200)

consistency?

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Re:The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters by bzlw on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:17PM (#21532465)

IMO, this is biggest reason to use linters. I don’t really mind what the “standard” is, as long as everyone is using the same one.

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Re:The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters by Goladus on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:55PM (#21538212)

Yes, consistently formatted code tends to be easier to read and tends to help teams be (slightly) more efficient.

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Re:The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters by muzani on Saturday November 16, 2019 @09:15AM (#21552720)

It's helping me a lot searching for, say, "thing" versus 'thing' or url vs URL.

I don't mind whether the coding style is ¿question? or simply question?, but I don't want to see both in the same file.

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Re:The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters by gtirloni on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:14AM (#21544467)

I think that seals it, no?

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