83 Go Static Analysis Tools
What is Go?
Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. The language is often referred to as "Golang" because of its domain name, golang.org, but the proper name is Go.
What are the best Go analysis 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
- ansible
- apex
- arm
- c
- ci
- clojure
- cloudformation
- coffeescript
- configfile
- configmanagement
- container
- cpp
- css
- csharp
- dart
- dockerfile
- dotenv
- dotnet
- editorconfig
- formatter
- gherkin
- go
- graphql
- groovy
- html
- java
- javascript
- json
- jsonschema
- jsx
- kotlin
- kubernetes
- latex
- lua
- lwc
- markdown
- nodejs
- perl
- php
- powershell
- protobuf
- puppet
- python
- r
- raku
- rst
- ruby
- rust
- scala
- shell
- snakemake
- sql
- terraform
- typescript
- vbnet
- vue
- writing
- xml
- yaml
Semgrep
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.
SonarQube
SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.
staticcheck
Go static analysis that specialises in finding bugs, simplifying code and improving performance.
ShiftLeft
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
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.
Better Code Hub
Better Code Hub checks your GitHub codebase against 10 engineering guidelines devised by the authority in software quality, Software Improvement Group.
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)
Scanmycode CE (Community Edition)
Scanmycode - Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report
go-critic
Go source code linter that maintains checks which are currently not implemented in other linters.
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.
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.
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.
Codiga
Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.
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.
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.
Hound CI
Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. Supports Coffeescript, Go, HAML, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS and Swift.
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.
ocular
Enables code auditors and security teams to interactively investigate their unique code bases to find business logic flaws and technical vulnerabilities that traditional SASTs cannot. This is done by enabling the analyst to write their own custom queries. Can find hard-coded secrets, authentication issues, and malicious code like rootkits and backdoors.
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.
ApplicationInspector
Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).
revive
Fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go. Drop-in replacement of golint.
Scrutinizer
A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.
SonarCloud
Multi-language cloud-based static code analysis. History, trends, security hot-spots, pull request analysis and more. Free for open source.
sqlvet
Performs static analysis on raw SQL queries in your Go code base to surface potential runtime errors. It checks for SQL syntax error, identifies unsafe queries that could potentially lead to SQL injections makes sure column count matches value count in INSERT statements and validates table- and column names.
structslop
Static analyzer for Go that recommends struct field rearrangements to provide for maximum space/allocation efficiency
Super-Linter
Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action.
TencentCodeAnalysis
Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.
Embold
Intelligent software analytics platform that identifies design issues, code issues, duplication and metrics. Supports Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin and more.
Deprecated/unmaintained tools
Go Meta Linter
Concurrently run Go lint tools and normalise their output. Use `golangci-lint` for new projects.
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