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Back in the day most people actually ignored the few warnings compilers would give them, i do not think that having a linter would be used much (and AFAIK there

by Crinus 7y ago

Back in the day most people actually ignored the few warnings compilers would give them, i do not think that having a linter would be used much (and AFAIK there were some).

gumby 7y ago
"Back in the day?" Check out your system's log file for a scary collection of horror shows. Or compile most packages these days. In defense: configuring a package that is compiled by lots of people on lots of machines with lots of versions of various compilers requires a lot of attention to warning flags and such. If you aren't starting out a package from a blank buffer it's very hard to get this right. But I am frequently shocked by the number of compiler warnings I get from code downloaded from public repos and compiled in precisely the environments it's been documented to have been tested on.