Live editor/IDE integration of linting (and type-checking) a la Matlab
would be quite nice to have one of these days. Julia seems to self-select
for the type of people who actually listen to suggestions and are willing
to experiment with refactoring and profiling, but I still fear the piles of
awful Matlab code I've dealt with over the years with every single line
covered in orange underlines (I think we've all been there). Tough balance
to strike with "if you ignore these, your code will run slowly" in a way
that doesn't lead to new users just tuning out all advice.
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:27:24 PM UTC-7, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> My inclination is to include type checking and linting in base Julia,
> automatically invoked by a "paranoid" mode that also ignores inbounds
> annotations and such. Then the testing infrastructure should run tests in
> paranoid mode, linting and type checking the code to be tested. This seems
> like a good point to have that kind of check automatically since you're
> already asking for that kind of feedback. Since packages should always have
> tests, this will also serve to make sure that packages pass type check and
> lint inspection.
>
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Sam L <sam.l...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> > I'd be strongly in favor of that, but it would make Julia feel more
> like one of those static languages for which compilers readily warn you
> about your bad habits.
>
> Maybe Lint and TypeCheck should display their message with a
> `suggest("blah")` or `hint("blah")` that is printed in purple instead of a
> red warning. :)
>
> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:39:11 PM UTC-7, Bradley Alpert wrote:
>>
>> I for one am thrilled to be able to program every day in such a
>> beautiful, flexible, clean language with generally good performance and in
>> which sparkling performance is possible. By comparison, performance
>> instability is a minor matter.
>>
>> There, I have thoroughly discredited myself by banal chatter!
>>
>>
