What is Infer?
Facebook Infer is a static analysis tool - if you give Infer some Objective-C, Java, or C code, it produces a list of potential bugs. Anyone can use Infer to intercept critical bugs before they have shipped to people's phones, and help prevent crashes or poor performance.
Infer is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.
Infer is an open source tool with 14.7K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Infer's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Infer?
Companies
7 companies reportedly use Infer in their tech stacks, including Facebook, immmr, and Pardel.
Developers
11 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Infer.
Infer Integrations
Infer's Features
- Android and Java - Infer reports null pointer exceptions and resource leaks in Android and Java code.
- iOS - In addition to this, it reports memory leak problems in iOS and C code.
Infer Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Infer?
Imply
It is a complete analytics platform built around Apache Druid.
While traditional business intelligence workflows focus on using static reports and dashboards, it provides rapid, dynamic access to streaming and batch data. Leverage the power of Druid to instantly create ad-hoc views on real-time and historical data and explain any pattern or anomaly.
ESLint
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
Prettier
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
TSLint
An extensible static analysis tool that checks TypeScript code for readability, maintainability, and functionality errors. It is widely supported across modern editors & build systems and can be customized with your own lint rules, configurations, and formatters.
SonarQube
SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.
