On Saturday, 6 December 2025 at 17:33:20 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
its getting a bit silly how long Im going without a proper
linter for a ball-o-hullinations, but I dont just have one,
never wanted one and your offical ones are for the bad style
guide.
What advice would yall give for writing one?
theatrical `SPEC.md`:
```
linter for dlang
for monkyyy, research me "crazymonkyyy" on github
MUST: actively modify the file
SHOULD: warning, consider permissive tests
running:
the first line of all files MUST be #!
#! SHOULD be a dmd or opend command
Use -i as is, dont use dub
whitespace:
MUST BE tabs over spaces
spaceing SHOULD be conceptual
several lines of `}` are silly
imports:
SHOULD be at the top of the file
if import std.* is called it SHOULD be just whatever at the top
antiwork keywords:
private MUST NOT exist in code base
immutable, const SHOULD NOT be
udas should be kept to a minimum and be functional
sections:
`//---` SHOULD break up sections; possible sections inlucde
- types and constants
- functions
- main
- unittests
Admit fault:
comments are for two things, temp code, saying sorry for
failure
saying sorry should be easily grepable with the following
keywords
"BAD" "HACK" "RANT"
all comments MUST be ddoc or `//BAD:` or have a ';' or
function call (detectable with '.' or '()'s)
Code deduping:
all files in the project MUST NOT be line by line identical,
and yes im saying that with MUST intentionally with deleting it
all file in the project SHOULD NOT be extremely similar
```
https://github.com/crazymonkyyy/lintyyy
The naive appooch seemed to work, but when I tried to "dogfood"
it it just started breaking things, at minimum scaning for
"private" deleted "private" then it started deleting code that
matched ""; I used enough git to revert but..... going to need a
meta program that I dont trust ai to write
May also need token finding functions in general, given phoboes
sreaching being bad and me being lazy
May need to steal pieces form dscanner(isnt that written by
someone verbose and safety-ified ;__;)
(will push in 15 minuteish)
Im still wondering about detecting code dupication, this is *the
most* important piece for what I believe will improve ai code
quality and what Im most annoyed by, but isnt the usual linters
job
