coc.nvim VS ale

Compare coc.nvim vs ale and see what are their differences.

coc.nvim

Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers. (by neoclide)

ale

Check syntax in Vim/Neovim asynchronously and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support (by dense-analysis)
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coc.nvim ale
319 133
23,895 13,263
0.5% 0.6%
9.0 8.8
6 days ago 11 days ago
TypeScript Vim Script
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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coc.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of coc.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.

ale

Posts with mentions or reviews of ale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.
  • A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2024
    I saw no mention of RBS+Steep, the latter providing a LSP. I use it a lot and very much like it, although it's still young and needs love, but it's making good, steady progress! I've been very pleasantly surprised by some of the crazy things Steep can catch, completely statically!

    You appear to be working on projects with Sorbet (which I tried to like but found it fell short in practice, notably outside of the app use case i.e it's mostly useless for gems) so it may be a tall order to try on those. Maybe you can give RBS+Steep a shot on some small project?

    RBS: https://github.com/ruby/rbs

    RBS collection (for those gems that don't ship RBS signatures in `sig`, integrates with bundler): https://github.com/ruby/gem_rbs_collection

    Steep: https://github.com/soutaro/steep

    VS Code: https://github.com/soutaro/steep-vscode

    Sublime Text: https://github.com/sublimelsp/LSP

    Vim (I'm working on it): https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/pull/4671

  • Laravel code-quality tools
    16 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2024
    Support for code quality tools are provided by the ALE plugin. These are supported for PHP:
  • Embracing Common Lisp in the Modern World
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
    I mostly agree, though I find Allegro and LispWorks severely lacking in areas too. The companies themselves don't seem to care much about their IDEs. Certainly not in the way JetBrains cares about IntelliJ.

    Tucked away in the McCLIM project is Clouseau, which you can quickload and use as a normal user: https://codeberg.org/McCLIM/McCLIM/src/branch/master/Apps/Cl... One small cool thing it does is if you inspect a complex number it will also draw a little x-y vector. (Though trying it out again just now it's overlapping with the text... maybe I should file a bug, but I've only now just learned they moved off github, and I'm not going to make a codeberg account. Friction wins this round.) It does take a while to first compile and load all the dependencies, especially 3bz, another weakness of at least our free Lisps; AFAIK there's still no equivalent of make -j for compiling systems.

    I'm a happy vim user (though there is some jank with slimv, admittedly, but it's mostly prevalent around multiple thread situations) and setup the command ,ci to call my own clouseau-inspect function; it just inspects a symbol with clouseau instead of slimv's inspector. Also have a janky watch/unwatch pair of functions that just refreshes the inspector every second. (https://github.com/Jach/dots/blob/master/.sbclrc#L113 if curious, some other junk in .swank.lisp and .vimrc too, and there's https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/issues/4061 to call sblint on your project...)

    But better forms of these sorts of graphical tools are what I hope to one day see more of and are how the free Lisps can close the gap in this area with the commercial Lisps. I believe there's not much Allegro can do that poking around SBCL can't do, but for many things it's just nicer to have a GUI. Want to explore all the symbols and values in a package? Easy enough to script that, but not as nice as just having a table of symbols, and even nicer if you can set watches on some of them. None of the tools need to be tightly integrated with a single IDE either, because all the stuff necessary to debug Lisp is in the running Lisp itself. It's just that the GUI situation continues to suck.

    LSP has gotten more popular with other languages and editors, sometimes I wonder if the acronym was made as an inside joke because it's basically how Lisp + Slime/Swank have worked...

  • A Humble Request for Assistance Maintaining ALE
    1 project | /r/vim | 21 Nov 2023
    Hello Everyone! w0rp here. I thought I'd ask on Reddit if there's anyone out there would like to help maintain ALE. It would be nice to have another willing volunteer who is up for providing relevant feedback on PRs, answering common questions, merging good PRs, and managing GitHub issues. I'll mention to anyone interested that I have a general policy of never closing issues, no matter how old, unless they are actually either solved or invalid. I bear no compulsions to ensure an that a number of issues, which is arbitrary, remains low. I have a relatively simple vetting process, which mostly just requires building trust over time.
  • Static Analysis Tools for C
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Oct 2023
    A similarly useful list is vim's famous ALE plug-in's list of supported linters:

    * https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/supported-...

    While less comprehensive¹, this is my go-to list when I start working with a new language. Just brew/yum/apt installing the tool makes it work in the editor²

    ¹this list mostly has foss,static analyzers, however anyone can contribute (mine was the gawk linting)

    ²alright,there are some. Tools that might need some setup

  • Tell HN: Vim Has Autocomplete
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    Ctrl-X Ctrl-L is line based completion, see :help CTRL-X_CTRL-L for details.

    :help ins-completion gets the useful docs, Vim's own docs are very good and worth spending some time learning how to use, so you can learn Vim itself better.

    Another favorite of mine is 'gf' to open the filename under the cursor, very useful combined with ^X ^F.

    Omni completion is also useful: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Omni_completion although you're better off with plugin that uses LSP now, for example https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

  • LazyVim
    32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2023
    FWIW, I still use regular vim with ale [0] and it does everything I want. It formats files with Black and isort, shows ruff and pyright errors, supports jumping to definitions, and has variable information available on hover. I have collected my config over the past several years, but I pretty rarely encounter errors with it.

    [0]: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale [1] https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/master/files/.co...

  • How to configure vim like an IDE
    44 projects | /r/vim | 27 Jun 2023
    At some of those syntax things neovim behaves better, and like. But there is https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale.
  • Vim users who work without any plugins, how does your vimrc look like?
    7 projects | /r/vim | 30 May 2023
    I replace ALE with :!, like :! %. If the linter output is compatible with default errorformat , then I do :! % > /tmp/linter.txt then :cgetfile (or in one-go: :cgetexpr systemlist(''))
  • Per project settings for linters used by ALE, how to do it the right way?
    1 project | /r/vim | 12 May 2023
    I'm not doing much of anything in Python, but according to :help ale-python-pylint:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing coc.nvim and ale you can also consider the following projects:

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

vim-lsp - async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

nvim-cmp - A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.

syntastic - Syntax checking hacks for vim

nvim-lint - An asynchronous linter plugin for Neovim complementary to the built-in Language Server Protocol support.

LunarVim - 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.