rtags VS cldoc

Compare rtags vs cldoc and see what are their differences.

rtags

A client/server indexer for c/c++/objc[++] with integration for Emacs based on clang. (by Andersbakken)

cldoc

clang based documentation generator for C and C++ (by jessevdk)
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rtags cldoc
3 1
1,820 548
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4.5 0.0
20 days ago almost 4 years ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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rtags

Posts with mentions or reviews of rtags. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-07.
  • How to combine rtags and vertico
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Apr 2023
    I decided to install cmake-ide. It seems that rtags came along with the former. Fine, but I also decided to use the vertico package. It also seems that rtags has a support for Helm, but from what I understand, Helm and and Vertico fall under the same category of packages and therefore I can only have one of them.
  • Modern alternate to ctags/etags?
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Jan 2022
    An alternative to LSP is rtags. I found this is often a lot faster than LSP, with any server.
  • External Clang Examples
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2021
    >"List of projects and tools

    https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags/

    "RTags is a client/server application that indexes c/c++ code and keeps a persistent in-memory database of references, symbolnames, completions etc."

    https://rprichard.github.com/sourceweb/

    "A C/C++ source code indexer and navigator"

    https://github.com/etaoins/qconnectlint

    "qconnectlint is a Clang tool for statically verifying the consistency of signal and slot connections made with Qt's QObject::connect."

    https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser

cldoc

Posts with mentions or reviews of cldoc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-09.
  • External Clang Examples
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2021
    "Constantine is a toy project to learn how to write clang plugin. Implements pseudo const analysis. Generates warnings about variables, which were declared without const qualifier."

    https://github.com/jessevdk/cldoc

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rtags and cldoc you can also consider the following projects:

ccls - C/C++/ObjC language server supporting cross references, hierarchies, completion and semantic highlighting

dxr - DEPRECATED - Powerful search for large codebases

clangd - clangd language server

llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

language-server-protocol - Defines a common protocol for language servers.

ToyClangPlugin - Playing with Clang plugin system