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What is Codacy? Automated Code Review. Codacy is an automated code review tool for Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CoffeeScript and CSS. It's continuous static analysis without the hassle. Save time in Code Reviews. Tackle your technical debt.

What is Infer? A tool to detect bugs in Android and iOS apps before they ship, by Facebook. 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.

Codacy and Infer can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.

Infer is an open source tool with 9.94K GitHub stars and 1.35K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Infer's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Codacy
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    Automated code review
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    Easy setup
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    Free for open source
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    Customizable
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    Helps reduce technical debt
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    Better coding
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    Best scala support
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    Faster Employee Onboarding
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    Duplication detector
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    Great UI
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    PHP integration
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    Python inspection
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    Tools for JVM analysis
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    Many integrations
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    Github Integration
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    Must-have for Java
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    Easy Travis integration
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    Items can be ignored in the UI
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    Cons of Codacy
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      What is Codacy?

      Codacy automates code reviews and monitors code quality on every commit and pull request on more than 40 programming languages reporting back the impact of every commit or PR, issues concerning code style, best practices and security.

      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.

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