On: When users never use the features they asked for

[3pt14159]

Your comment is more true today than it was back then, not that I disagree with you posting it. Back then linters were a twinkle in the hopeful eye of software devs. Now they're battle hardened.

[buescher → 3pt14159]

Back then was 2018. Lint dates from the seventies. I doubt it was the first static analysis tool, either.

[3pt14159 → buescher]

You're right. I read 2008 in the post and thought the writer was talking about a time shortly after then. By the late 2010s linters were prevalent.

[lamontcg → buescher]

It seems like autofixing linters got popular about 10 years ago? That was when it hit my radar at least, but before that I wasn't really a software dev. Whenever it happened that was a quantum jump in usability.

[david_allison → 3pt14159]

It's a 2018 paper, but definitely: it feels like something that's come to the forefront in the past 6/7 years and I don't think people are leveraging it enough.

It's so nice to be able to write a compiler/lint rule with a quick fix and then see it catch both my own mistakes, and potentially remove a concern/checkbox from the code review template