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Code Climate vs Credo: What are the differences?
Code Climate: Automated Ruby Code Review. After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots; Credo: A static code analysis tool for the Elixir language. credo can show you refactoring opportunities in your code, complex and duplicated code fragments, warn you about common mistakes, show inconsistencies in your naming scheme and - if needed - help you enforce a desired coding style.
Code Climate and Credo can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
Credo is an open source tool with 2.96K GitHub stars and 215 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Credo's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Code Climate
- Auto sync with Github71
- Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean49
- Better coding45
- Free for open source29
- Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates21
- Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code15
- Great UI13
- Makes you a better coder11
- Duplication Detection10
- Safe and Secure5
- Private2
- Locally Installable API1
- Uses rubocop1
- Extremely accurate in telling you the errors1
- GitHub only1
- Python inspection1
- great open community1
- GitHub integration, status inline in PRs1
Pros of Credo
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Cons of Code Climate
- Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint2
- Complains about small stylistic decisions1