On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Joe Developer
<[email protected]>wrote:

> No one is forcing anyone to use anything ( your work environment may vary
>>> ) - but the simple math is this: JS is going to be everywhere, lots of
>>> people will be coding in JS, demand for expertise ( or competence, or
>>> ability to gain it ) outstrips supply. Perhaps we have now established a
>>> population and a level of access to means for knowledge transfer of
>>> sufficient quality for 'the masses' - I doubt it.
>>>
>>> There will likely always be a population that will see benefit from
>>> using jslint, whether as blindmans cane, training wheels, fast-fail
>>> indicator or code consistency enforcer.
>>>
>>
>> I don't disagree - I just want it more configurable to my/our "house
>> style". Because I find it useful that it does catch some errors (there's a
>> large class of errors for example that "use strict" doesn't catch until
>> runtime, which is annoyingly late - I'd like a jslint that can catch those
>> errors, without futzing with my style - it seems clojure compiler might
>> just do that though).
>>
>
> Well, isn't that the motivation behind jshint?
>

Absolutely... I just don't think it goes far enough yet.


> Considering that jslint is both opensource and written in JS getting it to
> do what you want shouldn't be a challenge for the coding mastery that
> informs your stylistic mojo.
>

You're right. But I'm lazy :)

All I'm saying is that I wish there were better tools. And yes I should
probably write them (or help write them). But then we circle around to the
laziness :)

Matt.

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