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> Programming is so much easier now that we have this kind of tooling. Are you an Ent? What you mean by "now" may not be what most other sentient beings under

> Programming is so much easier now that we have this kind of tooling. Are you an Ent? What you mean by "now" may not be what most other sentient beings understand here... The program lint(1) was written in 1978, and the -W option for gcc appeared in the late eighties. For most of us, "this kind of tooling" has existed since before we were born. And I consider myself a graybeard!

nicoburns 4y ago
Hah, I wish I was an Ent! But I wasn't even born until well after 1978. However, specfically for JavaScript which is the language I was using when I first started programming it seems that the first linter wasn't released until 2011. At first there wasn't even `console.log`. I also think access to these tools has improved considerably. These days any introductory resource will point your towards VS Code which has a built-in marketplace which will install these tools for you at the click of a button (cross-platform!). That certainly wasn't the case even 10 years ago.