[Proposal] Lint for 'safer' code

[bernaferrari]

I wish there was a lint for things frequently used that can blow up. Example:

[].firstWhere(...) // This can throw an exception when false. Use firstWhereOrNull.
[].reduce(...) // This can throw an exception when list is empty, use fold instead.
http.get // This can throw an exception, try adding try/catch to make it safe.

These are often overlooked by people, and they only find out it blows in testing. If we had a lint, it would be easier for those that don't want them.

[julemand101]

For reduce I don't really think a lint is going to be used much since there are lot of cases where reduce is a perfectly valid thing to use and it would get annoying really fast to ignore the lint every time using reduce just to prove that you have thought about the risk.

[srawlins]

Without a more concrete description of what to report, I don't think we can act on this request.