Check your spelling!
It's easy to make a mistake in spelling when writing stuff online and worse - when writing code ๐งโ๐ป๐ฉโ๐ป๐จโ๐ป to build software. It's especially important to write code with less or 0 spelling mistakes when others are also going to read your code - which is most probably the case, either now or in the near or far future
Spelling mistakes can cause problems for people to search through code using their search ๐๐๐ฆ๐ features like Command
+ F
or Ctrl
+ F
in their text editor / IDE. Of course spelling mistakes are NOT a problem when you use modern tools โ๏ธ ๐งฐ ๐ ๏ธ to search through code using Find References
and similar features of the text editor / IDE which understand the language and do search ๐๐ฆ๐๐
I personally feel it's better to use words with less or 0 spelling mistakes, especially in source code
I personally use Code Spell Checker VS Code Extension in my Visual Studio Code. It's developed by https://streetsidesoftware.com/ . They have published a lot of Open Source VS Code Extensions - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/streetsidesoftware
Street Side Software has created a lot of Open Source software, which you can find at https://github.com/streetsidesoftware
CSpell is their main project I think - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell , https://cspell.org/
And there are lot of projects around the CSpell ecosystem, like the Code Spell Checker VS Code Extension and then there are more - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts , https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/vscode-cspell-dict-extensions , https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-action , https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli
They have dictionaries for various Spoken Languages and also for various Programming Languages and for many things Programming related - for example, a dictionary for AWS - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/aws , a dictionary for Docker - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/docker , a dictionary for Google Cloud - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/google , a dictionary for Kubernetes - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/k8s . They have dictionaries for other stuff too, like specialized dictionaries for some things - a dictionary for company names - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/companies , a dictionary for crypto currencies - https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/cryptocurrencies and more!
You can find all the dictionaries that are available for use in https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts , the dictionaries are well documented :)
I'm already using Code Spell Checker Extension for VS Code already and it's great ๐๐๐. I recommend you to start using it or something similar to it that can help you make less spelling mistakes in your software project source code or even documentation / docs
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Karuppiah Natarajan
Karuppiah Natarajan
I like learning new stuff - anything, including technology. I love tinkering with new tools, systems and services, especially open source projects