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Pylint vs Snyk: What are the differences?

# Introduction
This Markdown code provides a comparison between Pylint and Snyk.

1. **Linting Tool**: Pylint is a static code analysis tool that checks Python code for errors and helps enforce coding standards, while Snyk focuses on identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities in open-source libraries and containers.
2. **Primary Focus**: Pylint is primarily focused on checking for coding errors and enforcing quality standards in Python code, whereas Snyk is focused on identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities in dependencies used in applications.
3. **Language Support**: Pylint is specifically designed for Python code analysis, while Snyk supports multiple programming languages including JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, and more.
4. **Integration**: Pylint provides integrations with various code editors and continuous integration tools for seamless workflow integration, whereas Snyk offers integrations with package managers and CI/CD pipelines for vulnerability scanning.
5. **Feedback Type**: Pylint provides feedback on coding standards, errors, and potential improvements in code quality, while Snyk delivers feedback on security vulnerabilities found in the dependencies of an application.
6. **Cost**: Pylint is an open-source tool available for free, whereas Snyk offers both free and paid plans with additional features for enterprise users.

In Summary, the key differences between Pylint and Snyk lie in their focus on code analysis and security vulnerabilities, language support, integration capabilities, types of feedback provided, and cost structure. These distinctions make each tool suitable for specific aspects of application development and maintenance.
Advice on Pylint and Snyk
Bryan Dady
SRE Manager at Subsplash · | 5 upvotes · 430K views

I'm beginning to research the right way to better integrate how we achieve SCA / shift-left / SecureDevOps / secure software supply chain. If you use or have evaluated WhiteSource, Snyk, Sonatype Nexus, SonarQube or similar, I would very much appreciate your perspective on strengths and weaknesses and how you selected your ultimate solution. I want to integrate with GitLab CI.

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Moises Figueroa
DevOps Engineer at Ingenium Code · | 2 upvotes · 28.4K views
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I'd recommend Snyk since it provides an IDE extension for Developers, SAST, auto PR security fixes, container, IaC and includes open source scanning as well. I like their scoring method as well for better prioritization. I was able to remove most of the containers and cli tools I had in my pipelines since Snyk covers secrets, vulns, security and some code cleaning. SAST has false positives but the scoring helps. Also had to spend time putting some training docs but their engineers helped out with content.

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Pros of Pylint
Pros of Snyk
  • 3
    Command Line
  • 2
    Spell Check strings & comments
  • 2
    Code score & directions
  • 2
    Pre-commit checks
  • 2
    FOSS
  • 2
    Standards
  • 2
    IDE Integration
  • 1
    Check both committed & Uncommitted code
  • 1
    Hints to improve code
  • 10
    Github Integration
  • 5
    Free for open source projects
  • 4
    Finds lots of real vulnerabilities
  • 1
    Easy to deployed

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Cons of Pylint
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    • 2
      Does not integrated with SonarQube
    • 1
      No malware detection
    • 1
      No surface monitoring
    • 1
      Complex UI
    • 1
      False positives

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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 Snyk?

    Automatically find & fix vulnerabilities in your code, containers, Kubernetes, and Terraform

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