are their code quality tools that work with kotlin...

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[xenoterracide]

are their code quality tools that work with kotlin? checkstyle, spotbugs, and error prone are what I use with java.

[Steven McLaughlin]

There's this: https://ktlint.github.io/
It can at least be a starting point to cover some of what you listed

[xenoterracide]

hmm… k, error-prone is a compiler plugin, not sure if maybe it can just be used? same with spotbugs, since it does byte code analysis

[Steven McLaughlin]

I'd give it a shot. I've never worked with either of those two, but they may just work as-is.

[Mike]

Detekt is really good too!

I would hope that things checked for by error prone either aren't possible in kotlin or are caught by kotlin compiler.

[xenoterracide]

what’s Detekt?

[xenoterracide]

I know I can google

[Steven McLaughlin]

static code analysis

[xenoterracide]

one of the things EP checks for is an inversion of final… meaning all local vars must be effectively final unless you specify @Var,, I’m not sure if this is useful in kotlin, can you create a local/parameter without var/val?

[xenoterracide]

one of the big reasons I use EP

[Mike]

val is final, var is not. So I guess if you used var in Kotlin, EP would flag it.

[Mike]

https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/

[Mike]

So if you used EP, you’d have to do @Var var myVariable. Does provide additional incentive to not use var, which is generally easy to avoid in Kotlin anyway.

[Jukka Siivonen]

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