eastwood – Clojure lint tool

Eastwood is a Clojure linter; it inspects namespaces and reports possible problems.

Because it uses tools.analyzer, its analysis and diagnostics tend to be particularly accurate, avoiding false positives and false negatives.

In particular it’s about as accurate as the Clojure compiler itself – it prefers evaluation and macroexpansion over other approaches.

This approach is not free of tradeoffs. The use case where it shines is in CI environments, where a matrix of JDKs and/or Clojure versions can be leveraged, and where linter performance is not as critical as in editors or CLIs.

Eastwood’s main area of focus is spotting bugs (as opposed to, say, helping following coding conventions). Other tools can complement or partly overlap with Eastwood’s offering.

This is free and open source software.

Website: github.com/jonase/eastwood
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Developer: James Reeves
License: Open source

Eastwood is written in Clojure. Learn Clojure with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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