[sebastianmck]

It's a linter so you don't need to ask any of those questions. Future usage as a bundler isn't dependent on any decision to use it as a linter.

[wildpeaks]

It does matter if the only value of the linter at the moment is that it will be part of a set of tools to replace the entire toolchain.

It already took forever for the ecosystem to get JSHint, Tslint and others to converge into Eslint.