Zig Programming Language & Linters • Andrew Kelley & Jeroen Engels
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
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The Trade-Offs of Using a Linters Tool
I like to push towards prompting for every fix. There's something that I did wrong and that the tool wants to help me with. For instance, if you have an unused variable, the fix is to remove it right? But potentially it's the code that it just wrote. And the correct solution to that is to start using it somewhere. Now I don't know what it's doing now. Well, yeah. If I'm a junior developer, I'm going to assume that the tool knows better than me and accept it blindly. Right? Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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