clang-tidy
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5recommend
1warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
Oct 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“figure out good clang-tidy and clang-format rules”
“If you are coding C and C++ and NOT using clang-tidy, you are doing it wrong.”
C/C++ developeron “LLVM: The Bad Parts”
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“clang-tidy has a check for this”
Caveats and dissent
“python and clang-tidy were very unsuccessful with this approach”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- LLVM: The Bad Parts 2 mentions
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- A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury 1 mention
- Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters 1 mention
Also written as Clang-Tidy. Data: clang-tidy.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“MSVC and clang-tidy have struggled to achieve the Core Guidelines ideas”
“figure out good clang-tidy and clang-format rules”
“plus clang-tidy with very few suppressions”
“I use all warnings as errors, clang tidy and have a lot of flexibility”
“python and clang-tidy were very unsuccessful with this approach”
Gentoo is calling you ;) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LLVM
“If you are coding C and C++ and NOT using clang-tidy, you are doing it wrong.”
“clang-tidy has a check for this”
“foremost clang-tidy”