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@sebmck @slicknet but ESLint solves other problems outside of Babels core purpose. Pluggable rules, great linting documentation.

@ben336 Babel already does a ton of static analysis, that's all linting is. The APIs are already there. @slicknet

@sebmck @ben336 @slicknet Babel has APIs only for ASTs for own needs, while ESLint covers rather CST (tokens, whitespaces etc.)

@rreverser ESLint API is really simple. There's no real CST, just access to raw tokens. @ben336 @slicknet

@sebmck @ben336 @slicknet Of course - unfortunately no-one has "real CST" yet :) Still, it has different goals where it's more powerful.

@rreverser What areas is it more powerful? @ben336 @slicknet

@sebmck @ben336 @slicknet See my previous tweet :) Babel does pretty much nothing with tokens, spaces and indentations.

@rreverser Token retrieval APIs are trivial to implement. @ben336 @slicknet