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Phabricator vs Psalm: What are the differences?
What is Phabricator? Open Source, Software Development Platform. Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.
What is Psalm? Open-source static analysis tool for PHP (By Vimeo). It is a type-checking static analysis tool for PHP that finds bugs humans can miss, and improves code quality. It is designed to be useful on both large legacy codebases and small, modern ones. It can help you prevent the vast majority of type-related runtime errors, and also enables you to take advantage of safe coding patterns popular in other languages.
Phabricator and Psalm can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Phabricator are:
- reviewing code before it hits master
- auditing code after it hits master
- hosting Git/Hg/SVN repositories
On the other hand, Psalm provides the following key features:
- Open-source
- Static analysis tool
- Identify both obvious and hard-to-spot bugs in your code
Psalm is an open source tool with 3.16K GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Psalm's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Phabricator
- Open Source33
- Code Review29
- Supports Git/Hg/SVN25
- Bug Tracking18
- Audit Source Code17
- Unlimited Repo Support11
- Software Engineering Platform10
- Super fast task creation10
- Flexible Project Management9
- Project Management8
- Self hosted5
- Building Better Software4
- Best Integration with Gitlab2
- Complete set for collaborating on software development2
- Powerful, Complete, Fast, Reliable and Open Source1
- Straightforward code review process1
- Workflow1
- Very effective system, does all PM & code org needed1