Ideally this lint would ignore if (false) and if (true), even though these are still constant binary expressions, they aren't vectors for similar bugs like the constant expressions in the blog post.

Although "real" production software would use feature flags of some kind instead of hardcoding the constant, sometimes you do just need to hide some code behind an if statement that is currently ineffectual, and linters that prevent that are extremely annoying and force me to write a confusing, convoluted expression that is too complicated for the linter to detect as constant true or constant false.