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The Best Go Static Analysis Tools (Linters/Formatters)

We rank 94 Go linters, code analyzers, formatters, and more. Find and compare tools like Mega-Linter, Semgrep, go vet, and more. Please rate and review tools that you've used. This helps others find the best tools for their projects.

50 Go Tools

go vet

Examines Go source code and reports suspicious.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 95% upvoted

GolangCI-Lint

Alternative to Go Meta Linter: GolangCI-Lint is a linters aggregator.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 77% upvoted

staticcheck

Go static analysis that specialises in finding bugs, simplifying code and improving performance.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 91% upvoted

gofmt -s

Checks if the code is properly formatted and could not be further simplified.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • MaintainedlinterMaintainedformatter
  • 95% upvoted

goimports

Checks missing or unreferenced package imports.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

golint

Prints out coding style mistakes in Go source code.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

errcheck

Check that error return values are used.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 90% upvoted

deadcode

Finds unused code.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

go-critic

Go source code linter that maintains checks which are currently not implemented in other linters.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

ineffassign

Detect ineffectual assignments in Go code.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 83% upvoted

aligncheck

Find inefficiently packed structs.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

go tool vet --shadow

Reports variables that may have been unintentionally shadowed.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

gosec (gas)

Inspects source code for security problems by scanning the Go AST.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

misspell

Finds commonly misspelled English words.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

bodyclose

Checks whether HTTP response body is closed.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

dupl

Reports potentially duplicated code.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

shisho

A lightweight static code analyzer designed for developers and security teams. It allows you to analyze and transform source code with an intuitive DSL similar to sed, but for code.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 75% upvoted

structcheck

Find unused struct fields.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

unconvert

Detect redundant type conversions.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

errwrap

Wrap and fix Go errors with the new %w verb directive. This tool analyzes fmt.Errorf() calls and reports calls that contain a verb directive that is different than the new %w verb directive introduced in Go v1.13. It's also capable of rewriting calls to use the new %w wrap verb directive.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

goconst

Finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

gokart

Golang security analysis with a focus on minimizing false positives. It is capable of tracing the source of variables and function arguments to determine whether input sources are safe.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

gotype

Syntactic and semantic analysis similar to the Go compiler.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

govulncheck

Govulncheck reports known vulnerabilities that affect Go code. It uses static analysis of source code or a binary's symbol table to narrow down reports to only those that could affect the application. By default, govulncheck makes requests to the Go vulnerability database at https://vuln.go.dev. Requests to the vulnerability database contain only module paths, not code or other properties of your program.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

lll

Report long lines.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

maligned

Detect structs that would take less memory if their fields were sorted.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

nargs

Finds unused arguments in function declarations.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

unparam

Find unused function parameters.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

dingo-hunter

Static analyser for finding deadlocks in Go.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

dogsled

Finds assignments/declarations with too many blank identifiers.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

flen

Get info on length of functions in a Go package.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

go/ast

Package ast declares the types used to represent syntax trees for Go packages.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

go-consistent

Analyzer that helps you to make your Go programs more consistent.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Go Meta Linter

Concurrently run Go lint tools and normalise their output. Use golangci-lint for new projects.

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedGo
  • Deprecatedcli
  • Deprecatedmeta
  • 50% upvoted

gocyclo

Calculate cyclomatic complexities of functions in Go source code.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 50% upvoted

gofumpt

Enforce a stricter format than gofmt, while being backwards-compatible. That is, gofumpt is happy with a subset of the formats that gofmt is happy with. The tool is a fork of gofmt as of Go 1.19, and requires Go 1.18 or later. It can be used as a drop-in replacement to format your Go code, and running gofmt after gofumpt should produce no changes. gofumpt will never add rules which disagree with gofmt formatting. So we extend gofmt rather than compete with it.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedide-plugin
  • Maintainedformatter
  • 0% upvoted

goreporter

Concurrently runs many linters and normalises their output to a report.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedmeta
  • 50% upvoted

goroutine-inspect

An interactive tool to analyze Golang goroutine dump.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

nakedret

Finds naked returns.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

prealloc

Finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Reviewdog

A tool for posting review comments from any linter in any code hosting service.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

revive

Fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go. Drop-in replacement of golint.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

safesql

Static analysis tool for Golang that protects against SQL injections.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

structslop

Static analyzer for Go that recommends struct field rearrangements to provide for maximum space/allocation efficiency

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • MaintainedlinterMaintainedformatter
  • 0% upvoted

test

Show location of test failures from the stdlib testing module.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

varcheck

Find unused global variables and constants.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

wsl

Enforces empty lines at the right places.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

statsviz

Instant live visualization of your Go application runtime statistics in the browser. It plots heap usage, MSpans/MCaches, Object counts, Goroutines and GC/CPU fraction.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

gochecknoglobals

Checks that no globals are present.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

interfacer

Suggest narrower interfaces that can be used.

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedGo
  • Deprecatedcli
  • Deprecatedlinter
  • 33% upvoted

44 Multi-Language Tools

Mega-Linter

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 68% upvoted

Semgrep

Sponsor

A fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards at editor, commit, and CI time. Its rules look like the code you already write; no abstract syntax trees or regex wrestling. Supports 17+ languages.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 80% upvoted

Sonatype

Reports known vulnerabilities in common dependencies and recommends updated packages to minimize breaking changes

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 85% upvoted

SonarQube

SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 68% upvoted

ThreatMapper

Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 94% upvoted

CodeScene

Sponsor

CodeScene is a quality visualization tool for software. Prioritize technical debt, detect delivery risks, and measure organizational aspects. Fully automated.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 69% upvoted

DeepSource

In-depth static analysis to find issues in verticals of bug risks, security, anti-patterns, performance, documentation and style. Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Less than 5% false positives.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 76% upvoted

Better Code Hub

Better Code Hub checks your GitHub codebase against 10 engineering guidelines devised by the authority in software quality, Software Improvement Group.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 79% upvoted

trunk

Modern repositories include many technologies, each with its own set of linters. With 30+ linters and counting, Trunk makes it dead-simple to identify, install, configure, and run the right linters, static analyzers, and formatters for all your repos.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • MaintainedlinterMaintainedformatter
  • 82% upvoted

callGraph

Statically generates a call graph image and displays it on screen.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 80% upvoted

Codeac

Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 88% upvoted

Scanmycode CE (Community Edition)

Scanmycode - Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Checkmarx CxSAST

Commercial Static Code Analysis which doesn't require pre-compilation.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 54% upvoted

Codiga

Sponsor

Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Codacy

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 60% upvoted

Unibeautify

Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedformatter
  • 67% upvoted

CASR

Crash Analysis and Severity Report.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Sydr

Continuous Hybrid Fuzzing and Dynamic Analysis for Security Development Lifecycle.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • MaintainedlinterMaintainedfuzzer
  • 100% upvoted

Bearer

Sponsor

Open-Source static code analysis tool to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities leading to sensitive data exposures (PII, PHI, PD). Highly configurable and easily extensible, built for security and engineering teams.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Kiuwan

Identify and remediate cyber threats in a blazingly fast, collaborative environment, with seamless integration in your SDLC. Python, C\C++, Java, C#, PHP and more.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 63% upvoted

Svace

Static code analysis tool for Java,C,C++,C#,Go.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

todocheck

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 67% upvoted

ApplicationInspector

Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 60% upvoted

Hound CI

Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. Supports Coffeescript, Go, HAML, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS and Swift.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 54% upvoted

lizard

Lizard is an extensible Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for many programming languages including C/C++ (doesn't require all the header files or Java imports). It also does copy-paste detection (code clone detection/code duplicate detection) and many other forms of static code analysis. Counts lines of code without comments, CCN (cyclomatic complexity number), token count of functions, parameter count of functions.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Scrutinizer

A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Sigrid

Sigrid helps you to improve your software by measuring your system's code quality, and then compares the results against a benchmark of thousands of industry systems to give you concrete advice on areas where you can improve.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Snyk Code

Snyk Code finds security vulnerabilities based on AI. Its speed of analysis allow us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and Gitlab. It is free to try and part of the Snyk platform also covering SCA, containers and IaC.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

autocorrect

A linter and formatter to help you to improve copywriting, correct spaces, words, punctuations between CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • MaintainedlinterMaintainedformatter
  • 0% upvoted

Code Intelligence

CI/CD-agnostic DevSecOps platform which combines industry-leading fuzzing engines for finding bugs and visualizing code coverage

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

CodeSee

CodeSee is mapping and automating your app's services, directories, file dependencies, and code changes. It's like Google Map, but for code.t

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedserviceMaintainedide-plugin
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

goone

Finds N+1 queries (SQL calls in a for loop) in go code

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Qwiet AI

Identify vulnerabilities that are unique to your code base before they reach production. Leverages the Code Property Graph (CPG) to run its analyses concurrently in a single graph of graphs. Automatically finds business logic flaws in dev like hardcoded secrets and logic bombs

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Semgrep Supply Chain

Quickly find and remediate high-priority security issues. Semgrep Supply Chain prioritizes the 2% of vulnerabilities that are reachable from your code.