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by sgarland 640 days ago
Personally I disagree, but can understand your point.

I think I'm fairly experienced in shell and Python (~20 and ~8 YOE, respectively), and still find value in linters, type checkers, etc. Maybe moreso in Python, but that's probably a function of me writing larger programs in Python than in shell, and usually changing my mind on something as I'm writing it.
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shepherdjerred 640 days ago
I agree that there is value even for very experienced users. A good example of this is how expert C/C++ programmers still make mistakes with memory management -- memory safe languages benefits beginners and experts equally in this case.

I personally setup linters/formatters/other static analysis for solo projects, even for languages I know very well.

I just didn't want to write a comment large enough to capture all of the nuance :)

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