ocloc is a Rust command-line utility that counts lines of code across a codebase and presents the results in a clear, high-performance report.
It’s positioned as a modern alternative to cloc, with support for fast parallel analysis, detailed statistics, and a diff mode that can compare changes between Git references for CI and review workflows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Counts code, comment, and blank lines across source trees.
- Recognizes 50+ programming languages and file formats.
- Respects .gitignore rules automatically.
- Supports table, JSON, CSV, and Markdown output formats.
- Includes a diff mode for comparing changes between Git refs.
- Offers options such as progress display, extension filtering, custom ignore files, and thread control.
Website: github.com/adhishthite/ocloc
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Developer: Adhish Thite
License: MIT License
Related Software
| Alternatives to cloc | |
|---|---|
| Tokei | Displays statistics about your code |
| scc | Fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates |
| SLOCCount | Set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code |
| gocloc | A compact fast cloc tool seeking inspiration from Tokei |
| loccount | Re-implementation of David A. Wheeler’s sloccount tool in Go |
| loc | Rust implementation of cloc, but it’s more than 100x faster |
| tcount | Count your code by tokens and patterns in the syntax tree |
| sloc | Simple tool to count source lines of code written in CoffeeScript |
| polyglot | Command-line tool that determines project contents |
| enry | Programming language detector based on go-enry |
| Linguist | Assess a repository’s languages stats with github-linguist executable |
| CLOCTUI | TUI for CLOC |
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