Comment by tshaddox

> If the language needs a linter to keep otherwise-competent developers from introducing potentially maddening bugs into the codebase, it's weird.

This is an odd way to phrase things. A better way to look at this is that there are programming tasks which can be easily automated and tasks which cannot be easily automated. The ones which can be easily automated should be, so that humans can focus on the ones which cannot be easily automated. Do you not run automated tests, since those same tests could be done over and over by hand?