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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cloc

Last Updated on June 4, 2023

This article spotlights alternative tools to cloc.

Man page for cloc

The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.

Alternatives to cloc
TokeiDisplays statistics about your code
sccFast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates
SLOCCountSet of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code
goclocA compact fast cloc tool seeking inspiration from Tokei
loccountRe-implementation of David A. Wheeler’s sloccount tool in Go
locRust implementation of cloc, but it’s more than 100x faster
tcountCount your code by tokens and patterns in the syntax tree
slocSimple tool to count source lines of code written in CoffeeScript
polyglotCommand-line tool that determines project contents
enryProgramming language detector based on go-enry
LinguistAssess a repository’s languages stats with github-linguist executable
Have we missed any open source alternatives to cloc? Please let us know!
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All the CLI tools in this series.

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Chris T
Chris T
9 months ago
Have we missed any open source alternatives to cloc? Please let us know!" Read more »

I suggest adding gocloc, it’s written in Go.

Norm
Norm
9 months ago
Reply to  Chris T

I see what they did there…

Penny
Penny
9 months ago
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I’m using loccount, it’s a reimplementation of sloccount.

Captain Caveman
Captain Caveman
9 months ago

It’s interesting how some of these projects claim they are the fastest with examples to back up their assertion, even though they make contradictory claims.

Ivan the awful
Ivan the awful
9 months ago
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You missed out tcount. Step up guys!

Jordan
Jordan
9 months ago
Have we missed any open source alternatives to cloc? Please let us know!" Read more »

There’s the CoffeeScript sloc tool, and polygot which is written in ATS.

Keep up the good work!