What is "Linting"?

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Ashkan Kh. Nazary picture Ashkan Kh. Nazary · Dec 14, 2011 · Viewed 425.5k times · Source

PHPLint, JSLint, and I recently came across "you can lint your JS code on the fly" while reading something about some IDE.

So, what is "linting"?

Answer

Oded picture Oded · Dec 14, 2011

Linting is the process of running a program that will analyse code for potential errors.

See lint on wikipedia:

lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely to be bugs) in C language source code. The term is now applied generically to tools that flag suspicious usage in software written in any computer language.

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