alternative linters

[Basile B.]

On Friday, 12 December 2025 at 16:03:48 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> Writing a linter with ai failed, and possibly will never work
>
> Every detail about dscanner screams its not made for me, and of 
> course not pre-ai my answer would've been "linters are for code 
> written by idiots you dont trust", post-ai my opinion is 
> "linters are for code written by idiots you dont trust".
>
> I dont know how to move forward, how to fix code made by the 
> worse sort of idiot when my fuzzy nonstructural opinions on 
> code are just so different from the one tool.
>
> Ai will only get worse at mimiking my code as it trains and 
> retrains on dscanner approved code, and I expect most tools to 
> just assume a linter exists and auto add it to the tool chain. 
> So this is non-optional.
>
> Taste is everything here, and as far as Im concerned the only 
> tool is anti-taste.

Do linters based on AI understand side effects (strong purity) ?

D-Scanner is a very simple software based on the AST. Some of the 
checks are maybe doing a bit of sema but that's not really a good 
linter.