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coala vs Reek: What are the differences?
Developers describe coala as "Linting and fixing code for all languages". coala is a language independent analysis toolkit. It empowers developers to create rules which a project's code should conform to. coala takes care of showing these issues to users in a friendly manner, is versatile and can be used in any environment. On the other hand, Reek is detailed as "Code smell detector for Ruby". Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules, and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds.
coala and Reek can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
coala and Reek are both open source tools. It seems that Reek with 3.09K GitHub stars and 224 forks on GitHub has more adoption than coala with 2.82K GitHub stars and 1.33K GitHub forks.
Pros of coala
- Can be run locally with Docker0
- Can fix problems automatically0
- Supports many languages0