Top 3 dead-code-removal Open-Source Projects

vulture

3 3,005 7.5 Python

Find dead Python code

Project mention: Finding unused function/classes | /r/learnpython | 2023-05-22

I started to use vulture https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture which works fine for most simple cases, but where I have 2 functions with same name in different context(one is class method, second is normal function) and only one is used then tool cannot find such situation.

tombstone

3 255 6.1 PHP

Dead code detection with tombstones for PHP 🪦🧟

Project mention: PHP libraries and tools | dev.to | 2023-10-18

scheb/tombstone: Dead code detection with tombstones for PHP

InfluxDB

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pytest-vulture

1 4 2.9 Python

Vulture dead code finder plugin for Pytest

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