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The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters

3 points by Goladus 7y ago

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.

Goladus 7y ago
> your others And yes I understand the value of linters :p
Digg_mov 7y ago
consistency?
- bzlw 7y ago
  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.
- Goladus 7y ago
  Yes, consistently formatted code tends to be easier to read and tends to help teams be (slightly) more efficient.
  - gtirloni 7y ago
    I think that seals it, no?
  - muzani 7y ago
    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.