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by SkyMarshal 1016 days ago
> Do you care if your linting tool is built in if it's buggy and regularly releases breaking changes?

In general I would expect a linting tool or any other component that is a first class feature of the app would be less likely to be released with bugs and breaking changes than a third party one.

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In this day and age the “linting” tool does a lot more than just respond yes or no. It usually has a rules engine, templates, config file support and enforces a lot more things than just syntactical correctness.

With that in mind it’s probably impossible to build a linter that’s going to be able to serve these needs that’s also built-in and on the same release cadence as the runtime itself.

Sure, maybe. How would you know without doing some research into a specific project?

My point was that the feature checklist here is so surface level it's useless as a practical comparison.

Maybe?