Comment by hombre_fatal
1 day ago
If weird means out of norm, that's not the case. Every language either has a linter or would benefit from a linter because all languages have warts or idiosyncratic behavior.
Some languages are so error-prone and hard to use they even ship with static analysis and type-checking built in, like Rust and C! (And they still have linters on top of that!)
Perhaps post a language you think is exceptional to this?
Every language could benefit from a linter.
Given how accessible and widespread it is, it's hard not to make mistakes in JS without a linter.
Can you shoot your foot off with C or Rust? Sure. But they're systems programming languages for the most part, and aren't realistically proposed as tools in the "move fast and break things" world of web development where JS rules supreme. Ruby and Python are also used in web dev, albeit on the back-end, and they're not as idiosyncratic as JS.