Software:coala

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Short description: Language independent analysis toolkit

coala
coala
Coala Terminal usage.png
The SpaceConsistencyBear detecting tabs in files where spaces were expected using coala's terminal interface.
Original author(s)https://github.com/coala
Developer(s)The coala community
Written inPython
TypeCode analysis
LicenseAGPLv3

coala[1] is a free and open-source language independent analysis toolkit, written in Python. The primary goal of coala is to make it easier for developers to create rules which a project's code should conform to. coala emphasizes on reusability and pluggability of analysis routines, and the principle of don't repeat yourself (DRY).

On 6 May, it was featured on SDTimes.com as GitHub Project of the Week.[2] coala was also featured in the hackerpublicradio.[3] On 9 May 2016, an article was published on Medium by Gitter regarding its community.[4]

Features

Bears

Bears in coala are the equivalent plugins or extensions which provide some analysis routines. Bears can be language dependent as well as language independent. The language dependent bears supported by the coala community provide analysis routines for more than 30 languages.

Integrations

Integrations with a few editors/IDEs have been supported. This includes:

There are also interfaces with different visualizations provided like the web interface, command-line, D-Bus, and JSON.

Version History

Version Date Code name
0.2 2015 wombat
0.3 2015 platypus
0.4[7] 2016 eucalyptus
0.5[8] 2016 joey
0.6[9] 2016 honeybadger
0.7 2016
0.8 2016
0.9 2016
0.10 2017
0.11 2017

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