When people say lint, people refer to a software that checks your source code and flag errors, style guides, and some cases bugs. Each of this flags called rules and sometimes we are not aware of the importance of this rules.
Express Intent
All that space, newline, conventions, its all boil down to standardization. With standardization, each team member coding style is the same hence making debugging or switching team member in ideal cases, seamless.
When to break the rules
In some cases, a team or community tempted to break lint rules. Breaking lint rules are okay, as long as still expressing intent, but I never encourage someone to break it, this meant to be the last resort when the case is to choose between following lint rules or expressing intent. Which is very rare to happen because lint rules are designed to express more intent.
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That is my take away about lint if you want to discuss, please email me at hi@malamsyah.id
