It's a tool that finds things that aren't strictly errors in your code, but are likely to cause problems. see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(softwar

It's a tool that finds things that aren't strictly errors in your code, but are likely to cause problems. see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software) (this article refers to one particular (original?) lint tool, but there are numerous others for various other languages)