Namelint started!

I have been using Go for some projects recently: I like it and am quite productive, but had always been troubled by Amos’s I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride blog post.

He’s right, of course, but at the same time: should you really have to deal with such difficult file names?

So, to both learn some Rust, and make sure your non-Rust file handling code works, I’m starting namelint, a tool to check for troublesome file names. Ideally, it will catch:

• Security issues/hack attempts
• Cross-platform portability problems
• Names that require special escaping in various shells
• Customizable naming conventions

What it won’t do:

• Rename the failing files
• Check the file contents: it will never open a file¹
• Check attributes

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