quickcheck VS Clippy

Maybe https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck too?

Yeah as other have mentioned, I was using Rust before 1.0.

This is my first public commit: https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck/commit/c9eb2884d6a6...

I didn't write any substantive Rust before that point. So I'm at over 9 years.

The book, Zero To Production In Rust, uses quickcheck:

Hi all! I'm looking for some feedback on my latest crate, reltester. It's a small utility crate that, when paired with property-based testing with e.g. quickcheck makes it very easy to check that your handwritten comparison trait implementations satisfy the necessary constraints (transitivity, reflexivity, and all that stuff). I wrote it our of frustration after finding many subtle bugs in our PartialEq and PartialOrd implementations at $JOB, and hopefully someone else will find it useful.

For what it's worth this would also be a good candidate for property based testing, like with: https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck

I'm aware of Hypothesis and its approach, but the connection between Hypothesis and arbitrary is indeed non-obvious. Even looking over the API docs again, the most I could pick up was this on the docs of Unstructured:

Quickcheck https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck

I'm running into a strange issue while using [quickcheck](https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck) to implement tests and I'm hoping someone here might have an idea. Long story short, I have tests which fail in weird ways when using quickcheck that I can't reproduce otherwise, so I'm not even sure if it's a legitimate issue or not.

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

You should not blindly follow clippy lints. They are sometimes wrong. Another example https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/9782 .

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()] :)

Apart from running clippy on many projects being essential, clippy is also an exceptionally welcoming project, no matter your prior knowledge.

clippy is a great place to get started :) though it isn't exactly new.

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.

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.

Check out the readme for more information.

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.