Eradicate Typos in Source Code

1 · Bozhidar Batsov · May 24, 2019, 10:18 a.m.
I don’t know about you, but I keep making typos like crazy1, so I’m really glad that today we’ve got so many tools to help us with their discovery and mitigation. While most text editors have some spell checking for the comments in source files2, that generally is not enough to free our source files from typos - often we’d make typos in identifiers, some team mates won’t be using spell checkers at all, some people would use British spellings instead of US spellings and so on. Recently I found a...