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Bug#1013298: maybe retire?

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I'm actually wondering if it's worth working on flycheck at all at the
moment.

reading this post:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/spotlight-flycheck-a-flymake-replacement

I found this:

> So why switch away from Flymake? Well, before the advent of Emacs 27
> and the renewed interest in Flymake, I’d argue because Flymake had
> atrophied for a long time. Nowadays the distinction is less clear. If
> running M-x flymake-mode works as you expect – this is doubly true if
> you’re using a Language Server client like eglot or LSP-mode – then
> you can just stick with Flymake. It works well. But, if you’re using
> an older version of Emacs, or if you want a package with nearly a
> decade’s worth of attention lavished on it, you may want to give
> Flycheck a shot.

We're not "using an older version of Emacs", we're pretty good at
keeping up with upstream releases. So why should we bother with
Flycheck?

There's a comparison page that still seem to favor flycheck;

https://www.flycheck.org/en/latest/user/flycheck-versus-flymake.html

... but it hasn't been updated in 3 years, so I asked upstream for an
update:

https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck/issues/2023

I might also try to switch back to plain flymake myself.

a.

-- 
There is no power on earth from which we should be prepared to accept
an order to kill.
                       - Albert Einstein

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Bug#1013298: maybe retire? Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2023-06-06 21:10 +0200

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