The point of linters is so the code looks the same regardless of who wrote it. This way it’s easier to read. Some people have horrible style and linters really help.

I find linters make me faster. Sometimes I’m feeling lazy and I just want to pump out a bunch of lines of ugly code with mappings poorly formatted, bad indents, and just have it all synched up when I save.

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carlosjobim 4 days ago | parent [-]

I see no reason to accommodate to worthless programmers who aren't able to read or format the code that's sent to them. They can lint it themselves if they want.

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mindwok 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's not about accomodating people, it's about consistency in codebases when many people with different preferences or styles are working on it. You just eliminate the cognitive overhead so people can develop intuition about how the code works and flows.

	▲	carlosjobim 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Good, let huge companies do that. Now this lint madness is pushed onto everybody who wants to program, including individual hobbyists. And many of them are trying to learn coding and get their compiling sabotaged by the linter, not knowing it's something they can opt out of.