Checkstyle VS Error Prone

Compare Checkstyle vs Error Prone and see what are their differences.

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. (by checkstyle)

Error Prone

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors (by google)
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Checkstyle Error Prone
15 16
8,100 6,696
0.9% 0.7%
9.9 9.4
about 9 hours ago 6 days ago
Java Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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Checkstyle

Posts with mentions or reviews of Checkstyle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.

Error Prone

Posts with mentions or reviews of Error Prone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Checkstyle and Error Prone you can also consider the following projects:

spotless - Keep your code spotless

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

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

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

FindBugs - The new home of the FindBugs project

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

SonarJava - :coffee: SonarSource Static Analyzer for Java Code Quality and Security

Lombok - Very spicy additions to the Java programming language.