Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
coala vs Code Spotter: What are the differences?
What is coala? Linting and fixing code for all languages. coala is a language independent analysis toolkit. It empowers developers to create rules which a project's code should conform to. coala takes care of showing these issues to users in a friendly manner, is versatile and can be used in any environment.
What is Code Spotter? Cloud-based Static Code Analysis for Java. Boolean satisfiability. Interprocedural data flow. Statistical analysis. We’ve got them all. Plus false path pruning, which understands the data dependencies in your code and eliminates infeasible paths from the analysis so you don’t waste time triaging non issues.
coala and Code Spotter can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
coala is an open source tool with 2.82K GitHub stars and 1.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to coala's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of coala
- Can be run locally with Docker0
- Can fix problems automatically0
- Supports many languages0