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Code Climate vs SonarQube: What are the differences?
What is Code Climate? Automated Ruby Code Review. After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.
What is SonarQube? Continuous Code Quality. 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.
Code Climate and SonarQube belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
"Auto sync with Github" is the primary reason why developers consider Code Climate over the competitors, whereas "Tracks code complexity and smell trends" was stated as the key factor in picking SonarQube.
SonarQube is an open source tool with 3.78K GitHub stars and 1.06K GitHub forks. Here's a link to SonarQube's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Code Climate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 144 company stacks & 48 developers stacks; compared to SonarQube, which is listed in 105 company stacks and 61 developer stacks.
Pros of Code Climate
- Auto sync with Github71
- Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean49
- Better coding45
- Free for open source30
- Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates21
- Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code15
- Great UI13
- Makes you a better coder11
- Duplication Detection10
- Safe and Secure5
- GitHub only2
- Python inspection2
- Great open community2
- GitHub integration, status inline in PRs2
- Extremely accurate in telling you the errors2
- Uses rubocop2
- Private2
- Locally Installable API1
Pros of SonarQube
- Tracks code complexity and smell trends26
- IDE Integration16
- Complete code Review9
- Difficult to deploy1
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Cons of Code Climate
- Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint2
- Complains about small stylistic decisions1
Cons of SonarQube
- Sales process is long and unfriendly7
- Paid support is poor, techs arrogant and unhelpful7
- Does not integrate with Snyk1
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