Lint started life as a C program checker, going beyond the errors and warnings that the regular UNIX C compiler would issue. The idea spread and many other languages have had ‘lint’ programs written for them.

Most web developers need to be able to do at least a little bit of Javascript work, but I’d be willing to bet them few of them really know Javascript particularly well. I certainly don’t… I cobble together bits and pieces of it based on examples.

Having a lint tool for Javascript would be very handy for me. I ran across jslint.com last night… a simple web-based Javascript lint service which, now that I’ve pasted bits of my Javascript code from one of my projects into it, makes me realize I have a bit more work to do.

[From JSLint, The JavaScript Verifier]

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