What Chris Wellons thinks about software quality
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Wellons has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingCMake tooling is missing a linter that could statically catch most CMakeLists.txt mistakes.
Their wordsThe world needs a good CMake linter, which could catch most cases statically.
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