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linter

DeprecatedDeprecated

Linter is a Scala static analysis compiler plugin which adds compile-time checks for various possible bugs, inefficiencies, and style problems.

Tutorials / Guides

  • linter screenshot

3 Alternatives for linter

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Scalastyle

Scalastyle examines your Scala code and indicates potential problems with it.

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedScala
  • Deprecatedcli
  • Deprecatedlinter
  • 100% upvoted
1

scapegoat

Scala compiler plugin for static code analysis.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedScala
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted
3

WartRemover

A flexible Scala code linting tool.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedScala
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 80% upvoted

20 Multi-Language Tools

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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
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Betterscan CE

Sponsor

Checks your code and infra (various Git repositories supported, cloud stacks, CLI, Web Interface platform, integrationss available) for security and quality issues. Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners deduplicated with One Report (AI optional).

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedMulti-Language
  • Deprecatedcli
  • Deprecatedlinter
  • 40% upvoted
10

callGraph

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

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedMulti-Language
  • Deprecatedcli
  • Deprecatedlinter
  • 73% upvoted
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Checkmarx CxSAST

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

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 52% upvoted
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Coverity

Synopsys Coverity supports 20 languages and over 70 frameworks including Ruby on rails, Scala, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Fortran, C, C++, C#, VB.NET.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 63% upvoted
9

DerScanner

Multi-language Static Application Security Testing (SAST) platform that detects critical vulnerabilities, including hardcoded secrets, weak cryptography, backdoors, SQL injections, insecure configurations, etc.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 76% upvoted
3

Find Security Bugs

The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications and Android applications. (Also work with Kotlin, Groovy and Scala projects)

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 71% upvoted
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jscpd

Copy/paste detector for programming source code. Finds duplicated blocks in 200+ file formats — JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, C/C++, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby and more — using token-based detection. Supports configurable thresholds and ignore patterns, git blame integration, and reporters for console, HTML, JSON, Markdown, SARIF and badges. Runs via CLI, in CI pipelines, or as a library; bundled by MegaLinter and Codacy.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted
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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
  • 50% upvoted
140

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
  • 67% upvoted
10

PMD

A source code analyzer for Java, Salesforce Apex, Javascript, PLSQL, XML, XSL and others.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 73% upvoted
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Repowise

Deterministic, zero-LLM code-health analysis. Scores every file 1-10 for defect risk, maintainability, and performance from 25 markers: McCabe complexity, LCOM4 cohesion, god classes, Rabin-Karp clone detection, change entropy, and untested hotspots. Adds a dependency graph, dead-code detection, git-history signals (churn, ownership, co-change), and concrete graph-aware refactoring plans. Ships as a CLI, an MCP server, and a VS Code extension across 15 languages.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedserviceMaintainedide-plugin
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted
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sem

Semantic version control CLI that provides entity-level diffs, blame, and impact analysis on top of git. Uses tree-sitter to parse 26 languages and builds a cross-file dependency graph with structural hashing. Commands include sem diff, sem blame, sem graph, and sem impact for blast-radius analysis of code changes.

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

Scan is a free open-source DevSecOps platform for detecting security issues in source code and dependencies. It supports a broad range of languages and CI/CD pipelines. Note: ShiftLeft rebranded to Qwiet AI in 2023, which was subsequently acquired by Harness in September 2025. This open-source project is no longer maintained.

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedMulti-Language
  • DeprecatedcliDeprecatedservice
  • Deprecatedlinter
  • 36% upvoted
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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
  • 89% upvoted
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SonarQube for IDE

SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) is a free IDE extension available for IntelliJ, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse, to find and fix coding issues in real-time, flagging issues as you code, just like a spell-checker. More than a linter, it also delivers rich contextual guidance to help developers understand why there is an issue, assess the risk, and educate them on how to fix it.

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

Static Reviewer executes code checks according to the most relevant Secure Coding Standards, OWASP, CWE, CVE, CVSS, MISRA, CERT, for 40+ programming languages, using 1000+ built-in validation rules for Security, Deadcode & Best Practices Available a module for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to find vulnerabilities in open source and third party libraries.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 33% upvoted
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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.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 57% upvoted
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todocheck

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 44% upvoted
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weave

Entity-level semantic merge driver for git. Resolves false conflicts that line-based merge produces when independent changes touch the same file. Parses functions and classes via tree-sitter, matches by name, and merges at the entity level. Benchmarked at 100% clean merges vs git's 48% on a 31-scenario suite.

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

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