golangci-lint is a fast Go linters runner.
It runs linters in parallel, uses caching, supports YAML configuration, integrates with all major IDEs, and includes over a hundred linters.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fast: runs linters in parallel, reuses Go build cache and caches analysis results.
- YAML-based configuration.
- Integrations with VS Code, Sublime Text, GoLand, GNU Emacs, Vim, GitHub Actions.
- A lot of linters included, no need to install them.
- Minimum number of false positives because of tuned default settings.
- Nice outputs: text with colors and source code lines, JSON, tab, HTML, Checkstyle, Code-Climate, JUnit-XML, TeamCity, SARIF.
Website: github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
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Developer: GolangCI
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
golangci-lint is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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