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Reek vs Pylint: What are the differences?
Reek: Code smell detector for Ruby. Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules, and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds; Pylint: Source-code, bug and quality checker for the Python programming language. It is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions.
Reek and Pylint belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
Reek and Pylint are both open source tools. Reek with 3.13K GitHub stars and 227 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pylint with 2.28K GitHub stars and 493 GitHub forks.
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What is Pylint?
It is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions.
What is Reek?
Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules, and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds.
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What are some alternatives to Pylint and Reek?
ESLint
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
Prettier
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TSLint
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SonarQube
SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.
Stylelint
A mighty, modern CSS linter that helps you enforce consistent conventions and avoid errors in your stylesheets.