Comment by lenerdenator

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.