Sourcetrail VS code2flow

Compare Sourcetrail vs code2flow and see what are their differences.

Sourcetrail

Sourcetrail - free and open-source interactive source explorer (by CoatiSoftware)

code2flow

Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages (by scottrogowski)
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Sourcetrail code2flow
46 6
12,302 3,651
- -
7.0 0.0
over 2 years ago 11 months ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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Sourcetrail

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sourcetrail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-24.

code2flow

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  • Discontinue Sourcetrail
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
    I maintain a similar (but less popular) open-source CLI that generates flow charts for dynamic languages (Python, JS, Ruby, PHP) - https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow/

    The thought has crossed my mind to try to actually sell it as a SaaS. But by itself, call graph visualizers are the sort of thing that you would need only once or only every once in a while. That sort of software is very difficult to monetize - as 10,000 failed productivity app companies could tell you. I don't know the details of what happened with Sourcetrail but I assume it was similar - developers might have found it useful occasionally but it's not something most developers would use daily or even monthly - so it's hard to justify a subscription.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Sourcetrail and code2flow you can also consider the following projects:

pycallgraph

coala - coala provides a unified command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.

pysonar2 - PySonar2: a semantic indexer for Python with interprocedual type inference

vprof - Visual profiler for Python

pydeps - Python Module Dependency graphs

Spotbugs - SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

Undebt - A fast, straightforward, reliable tool for performing massive, automated code refactoring

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

Checkstyle - Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

Gource - software version control visualization

PythonBuddy - 1st Online Python Editor With Live Syntax Checking and Execution