Two Wishes for Dev Tooling

Re:Two Wishes for Dev Tooling by globular-toast on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:58AM (#27808401)

> My projects typically use two tools that statically analyze code: linting, and tests.

Erm. Tests aren't static analysis.

I don't see the problem with running formatters in CI and I don't see how it could cause "chaos". The first stage in my CI pipelines is a QA check which includes running linters, formatters etc. It's up to each developer to make sure it passes and this can easily be achieved by installing the pre-commit hooks in their environments.

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Re:Two Wishes for Dev Tooling by thrower123 on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:11AM (#27809453)

I do chuckle a little bit when I think about how all the linters and formatters and bundlers and transpilers and braindead test suites that have agglomerated onto JS development are effectively just a bad compiler with extra steps.

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Re:Two Wishes for Dev Tooling by gjvc on Monday July 12, 2021 @09:33AM (#27810072)

JS is the biggest local maxima for this sort of thing that the world has ever seen.

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