linters
a community wiki for improving code quality (by mcandre)
Clippy
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/ (by rust-lang)
| linters | Clippy | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 120 | |
| 338 | 10,769 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 7.2 | 10.0 | |
| 4 months ago | about 11 hours ago | |
| Rust | ||
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
linters
Posts with mentions or reviews of linters.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
- Is there a good place to find best practices?
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Golang Security Checker
Some links on these pages:
https://analysis-tools.dev/tag/rust https://github.com/mcandre/linters#rust https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things/blob/maste...
Clippy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Clippy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.
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More than you've ever wanted to know about errors in Rust
I couldn't find it in the API guidelines either. From what I understand, the idea is that any trait bounds, which includes generic type parameter bounds and lifetime bound on a type (struct or enum) would be repeated back in the impl block
there is a nice discussion on this issue here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/1689
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New clippy lint: detecting `&mut` which could be `&` in function arguments
You should not blindly follow clippy lints. They are sometimes wrong. Another example https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/9782 .
- Let else will finally be formatted by rustfmt soon
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My deduplication solution written in Rust beats everything else: casync, borg...
I often write () = f() to assert that f() is unit. Unfortunately clippy warns on such code ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/9048 ). There are very recent pull requests for this bug, so hopefully this bug will be fixed very soon. But meanwhile I invented this workaround: [()] = [f()] :)
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Any open source projects willing to take in juniors?
Apart from running clippy on many projects being essential, clippy is also an exceptionally welcoming project, no matter your prior knowledge.
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Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
clippy is a great place to get started :) though it isn't exactly new.
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I want to contribute in a big project
clippy is also pretty compiler-adjacent and unlike rust-analyzer uses rustc's internal APIs. Don't let the size of the code base scare you off! It's actually feasible for a newcomer to contribute even such a substantial change as a new lint, and we have issues labeled as "good first issue" that come with mentorship, so you don't need to go it alone.
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rustc-plugin: A framework for writing plugins that integrate with the Rust compiler
Yes, you could use it to write a lint. Although you might find it easier to just fork Clippy and add your own lints to their existing framework.
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Reading Rust
Check out the readme for more information.
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Rust Tips and Tricks #PartOne
They are two of my favorite Rust tools. If you haven’t tried them yet, I highly recommend giving them a try. Clippy can detect various lints in your code and guide you towards writing more idiomatic code. To install Clippy, simply run rustup component add clippy, and to run it within your workspace, execute cargo clippy. For more details, visit Clippy’s GitHub repository.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing linters and Clippy you can also consider the following projects:
gosec - Go security checker
rustfmt - Format Rust code
check-all-the-things - check all of the things!
vscode-rust
100-go-mistakes - 📖 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
rust.vim - Vim configuration for Rust.
rustsec - RustSec API & Tooling
rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]
Rust for Visual Studio Code
intellij-rust - Rust plugin for the IntelliJ Platform
sublime-rust - The official Sublime Text 4 package for the Rust Programming Language
emacs-ycmd - Emacs client for ycmd, the code completion system.