Running lint causes the code to be executed?
Of course it does! This is the same company that happily extended email to be executable code instead of a simple messaging platform so spammers could pwn your computer, added "features" to the web browser so anonymous adverts on "trusted" websites could pwn your computer, and made it much easier to run everything as administrator (root) rather than encouraging least-privilege software to limit the damage their new standards caused.
The real question is, "Do you trust the authors of Visual Studio?"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
