When comparing Package control vs JSHint, the Slant community recommends Package control for most people. In the question“What are the best plugins for Sublime Text?” Package control is ranked 1st while JSHint is ranked 35th.
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Pros
Pro Automatically upgrades your packages
Pro Helps you discover new plugins
Package control retrieves a list of plugins from their central server, making it easier to find new plugins.
Pro Enables you to customise and extend Sublime text!
Pro Supports GitHub, BitBucket and a full channel/repository system
Pro Free
Really ease your life for free
Pro Customizable ruleset
Since it's creation, JSHint was created to be a more configurable version of JSLint (it's actually a fork of JSLint itself). Every rule is configurable through a configuration file.
Pro Comes with support for many librariers
JSHint supports libraries like QUnit, NodeJS, jQuery, Mocha out of the box.
Pro Basic ES6 support
Basic ES6 support is included.
Cons
Con No way to support ESnext
There's no support for ESnext available.
Con Difficult to know which rule is causing an error
Because it does not display the rule name that is being broken, it's difficult to know which rule is actually causing the error.