cpplint VS cpp-linter-action

Compare cpplint vs cpp-linter-action and see what are their differences.

cpplint

Static code checker for C++ (by cpplint)

cpp-linter-action

A Github Action for linting C/C++ code integrating clang-tidy and clang-format to collect feedback provided in the form of file-annotations, thread-comments, workflow step-summary, and Pull Request reviews. (by cpp-linter)
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cpplint cpp-linter-action
2 1
1,462 82
2.3% -
8.6 8.1
2 days ago 10 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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cpplint

Posts with mentions or reviews of cpplint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.
  • Configuring Cppcheck, Cpplint, and JSON Lint
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2024
    I was configuring them as I was reading. I have done this before, but we had some months of use since then, and I have seen it working in real-time. I got a lot out of this second read and configuration round. I discovered that I over-configured Cppcheck; there is much more to get out of Cpplint, and I reviewed the JSON Schema versions.
  • C/C++ pre-commit hooks for static analyzers and linters
    9 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Sep 2021
    and five C/C++ static code analyzers: * clang-tidy * oclint * cppcheck * cpplint (recently added!) * include-what-you-use (recently added!)

cpp-linter-action

Posts with mentions or reviews of cpp-linter-action. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cpplint and cpp-linter-action you can also consider the following projects:

Cppcheck - static analysis of C/C++ code

megalinter - 🦙 MegaLinter analyzes 50 languages, 22 formats, 21 tooling formats, excessive copy-pastes, spelling mistakes and security issues in your repository sources with a GitHub Action, other CI tools or locally.

cmake-lint - Fork of https://github.com/richq/cmake-lint to continue maintenance

megalinter - 🦙 Mega-Linter analyzes 49 languages, 22 formats, 21 tooling formats, excessive copy-pastes, spelling mistakes and security issues in your repository sources with a GitHub Action, other CI tools or locally. [Moved to: https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter]

include-what-you-use - A tool for use with clang to analyze #includes in C and C++ source files

pre-commit-hooks - C/C++ hooks to integrate with pre-commit

uncrustify - Code beautifier

codechecker - CodeChecker is an analyzer tooling, defect database and viewer extension for the Clang Static Analyzer and Clang Tidy

OCLint - A static source code analysis tool to improve quality and reduce defects for C, C++ and Objective-C

run-clang-format - A wrapper script around clang-format, suitable for linting multiple files and to use for continuous integration

pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

pull-shark-automation - An Automatic Github Pull Shark Achievement Collector