ESLint is a static code analysis tool for identifying and fixing problems in JavaScript code.

It helps developers maintain code quality and consistency by enforcing coding standards and

detecting issues such as syntax errors, stylistic problems, and bugs.

Nicholas Zekhas is the creator of ESLint.

He joins the show to talk about working at Yahoo in the early days of the web,

learning from JSLint, creating ESLint, separation of parsing and rules, and more.

This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open-source developer.

Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ES Slint,

the tooling that enables ESS Slint and prettier to run on TypeScript code.

Josh is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer

technologies, and a live code streamer on Twitch.

Find Josh on Blue Sky,

Mastodon, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and dot com as Joshua K. Goldberg.

Hello, everyone.

With me today for Software Engineering Daily is creator and maintainer of ESLint and leadership coach for developers, Nicholas Zakis.

Nicholas, welcome to Software Engineering Daily. How's it going?

It's going great. Thanks for having me.

We're excited to have you here.

Just to start us off, could you give us a brief overview of who you are and how you got into tech?

Yeah, well, as you mentioned, I'm the creator and one of the maintainers of ESLint currently and a coach for software engineers.

I got started initially, say, my first language was actually

basic on an Apple 2E clone, not the actual Apple 2E because that was too expensive, and kind of

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