I started using Pylint for my Python projects. It gives a lot of recommendations, and not all of them are good, but it really helps me catch stupid errors and bad formatting.

I don't usually use an IDE, and so having a command-line utility for common IDE things is really nice.

Signed,

me, a baby programmer lol

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Moonside wrote on March 18, 2018 at 12:58 AM

Linters are, imo, pretty damn good. Honestly I like all kinds of static analysis things. They also end up being kind of stealth tutors pointing to problems you couldn't have known (yet) and you can learn stuff genuinely out of a need.

musou wrote on March 18, 2018 at 3:13 AM

i love linters especially when they can autoformat to a particular style. elixir has one built into its build tool and i've also had good luck with rubocop in ruby and eslint for JS.