Top 5 Rust Lint Projects

Clippy

28 10,148 9.8 Rust

A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

Project mention: More than you've ever wanted to know about errors in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-23

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
shellharden

1 4,472 5.7 Rust

The corrective bash syntax highlighter

Project mention: Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-23

Everytime I see Shellcheck coming up, I have to mention shellharden[0] written by a colleague of mine. It is basically shellcheck but it applies the suggested changes automatically.
0: https://github.com/anordal/shellharden
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svlint

0 249 0.0 Rust

SystemVerilog linter
git-mit

0 58 0.0 Rust

Minimalist set of hooks to aid pairing and link commits to issues
lowlint

0 0 10.0 Rust
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-11-23.