luacheck VS selene

Compare luacheck vs selene and see what are their differences.

luacheck

A tool for linting and static analysis of Lua code. (by mpeterv)

selene

A blazing-fast modern Lua linter written in Rust (by Kampfkarren)
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luacheck selene
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luacheck

Posts with mentions or reviews of luacheck. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
  • strict.lua
    4 projects | /r/lua | 10 May 2023
    Not directly related, but luacheck can also help with this.
  • Lua is eye candy
    1 project | /r/love2d | 5 Oct 2022
    Yeah. While you're at it, make a habit of running luacheck on your files as it helps catch a lot of these issues that can sneak in by mistake: https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck
  • Help me reload my lua config! :)
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 22 Sep 2022
    Using something like https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck might be helpful too. Will check all the files in a directory and will let you know which one might be problematic.
  • Lsp: Execute callback after server initialized
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Sep 2022
    I'm trying to setup luacheck (via null-ls) to run alongside sumneko-lua (via nvim-lspconfig).
  • A History of Lua
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2022
    Most of the time nothing is used. The thing is that iterating is so quick, that you find the problems really fast.

    Although, I've been using luacheck https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck. It is quite nice, but you have to write down the global variables by hand on the config file.

  • Writing a neovim plugin. Please send criticisms to make the code better
    6 projects | /r/neovim | 18 Jun 2022
    Check out luacheck. It can help spot typos or mistakes you've made and warn against anti-patterns. I'd honestly only look into setting it up locally because there's no benefit to putting it in a CI pipeline unless you have one for another reason IMO. This should be all the config you need:
  • Modding Help - Error Diagnosis
    1 project | /r/theriftbreaker | 9 Feb 2022
  • GitHub Successors
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2022
    Sadly the scenario that the successor feature is intended to alleviate has very much become reality. The creator of Luacheck (Peter Melnichenko) passed away a couple of years ago, and ever since then the GitHub repository has been in a state of limbo. Multiple unofficial forks have come and gone, but Peter's is still the first result on Google if you search "luacheck". It isn't even possible to change the README or pin an issue to get people's attention about the fork; to this day people are still posting issues to the old repo.

    And Luacheck is "the" Lua static analysis tool that pretty much everyone uses, so it's a very significant issue.

    https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck/issues/198

  • Kind of define in lua
    2 projects | /r/lua | 5 Jan 2022
    You are probably right, but luacheck is well aware of which global variables are built-in and it has special comments, such as -- no global or --ignore in case you very want to overwrite them.
  • Is it ok to name a function for example "function self:Example() end" or is it a big mistake? And how to find (directory) location of a function?
    2 projects | /r/lua | 30 Nov 2021
    Calling your function self is as much bad practice as calling it print. Use luacheck to avoid such mistakes.

selene

Posts with mentions or reviews of selene. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing luacheck and selene you can also consider the following projects:

lua-language-server - A language server that offers Lua language support - programmed in Lua

StyLua - An opinionated Lua code formatter

vscode-lua-format - Reformats your Lua source code

LuaFormatter - Code formatter for Lua

static-curl - fully static builds of curl, runs anywhere

luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

NvChad - Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

twilight.nvim - 🌅 Twilight is a Lua plugin for Neovim 0.5 that dims inactive portions of the code you're editing using TreeSitter.

NvChad - An attempt to make neovim cli as functional as an IDE while being very beautiful , blazing fast. [Moved to: https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad]

MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow