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Re:Emacs Survey 2020 Results by cannam on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:56PM (#25390876)
> You haven't heard of error checking?

Is this an earnest question? No, I didn't understand, when I was reading the article, what an error checking framework was for. What sort of errors? Errors in what?

Of course I've since looked up flycheck - it's for syntax checking code as you type it.

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Re:Emacs Survey 2020 Results by void_pointer on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:47PM (#25391584)
I thought "error checking" was one of the most important & popular inventions of the 21 century in developer experience and so there is no way someone in 2020 does not automatically associate that term with what it stands for in other editors.
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Re:Emacs Survey 2020 Results by ashtonbaker on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:16PM (#25392098)
...so what is it? Linting? Syntax validation? I don't have any specific associations for "error checking" beyond the literal meaning of the words.
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Re:Emacs Survey 2020 Results by markc on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:24PM (#25394739)
You thought wrong. The term is neither universal among developers, nor obvious without clarification.
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