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# Why was the project renamed from elm-lint to elm-review?
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"Linting"/"delinting" is etymologically something about cleaning dirty clothes. In programming terms, it's mostly about removing useless clutter and enforcing a coding style, and sometimes about simplifying the code. Since in the Elm community, we have `elm-format` to format the code, most stylistic issues that "linters" enforce are already solved. Therefore, the name "lint" doesn't match what this tool does.
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Instead, this tool should be used more in order to catch problems, add additional guarantees to your code or project structure, and not so much about enforcing a code style. In practice, this tool will report things that your colleagues would tell you during code reviews, so I thought it fitting to rename it to `elm-review`.
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