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Hound vs Pylint: What are the differences?
What is Hound? A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests. Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations.
What is Pylint? Source-code, bug and quality checker for the Python programming language. It is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions.
Hound and Pylint can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations
On the other hand, Pylint provides the following key features:
- Syntax Check
- Style Check
- Warnings
Hound and Pylint are both open source tools. It seems that Pylint with 2.28K GitHub stars and 493 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hound with 1.73K GitHub stars and 395 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Hound has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to Pylint, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2
Pros of Pylint
- Command Line3
- Spell Check strings & comments2
- Code score & directions2
- Pre-commit checks2
- FOSS2
- Standards2
- IDE Integration2
- Check both committed & Uncommitted code1
- Hints to improve code1
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