gjslint

While using gjslint, I got a hint: "Single-quoted string preferred over double-quoted string". So why? I'm a little confused with this. Why single-quoted preferred? Hope to get some help. Thanks all. It's just somebody's opinion. Lots of people do prefer singe-quotes, but lots of other people prefer double-quotes. I tend to use double-quotes just out of habit from other languages, but I don't have a strong preference: I'm willing to change if I hear of a compelling reason why single-quotes are better, but to date I've not even heard a good reason, let alone a compelling reason. Even the Google

PHPLint, JSLint, and I recently came across "you can lint your JS code on the fly" while reading something about some IDE. So, what is this linting that everyone knows but me? Linting is the process of running a program that will analyse code for potential errors. See lint on wikipedia: lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely to be bugs) in C language source code. The term is now applied generically to tools that flag suspicious usage in software written in any computer language. Lint was the name of a program