Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Qlty CLI – Meta-linter and auto-formatter for 20 programming languages
💎 Code quality CLI for universal linting, auto-formatting, security scanning, and maintainability - qltysh/qlty
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Qlty CLI – Meta-linter and auto-formatter for 20 programming languages launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Ultracite v6▲252Opinionated, zero-config code linter and formatter
Nov 2025 · ultracite.ai · its alternatives →
- 2QC
2013 · zacharyvoase.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for, - Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode) - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512 - Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random - Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff - Development Tools: calc, json…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalist type-inferred programming language with procedural macro support - murisi/L2
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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qq is jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying. It features an optional interactive editor with autocomplete for structured data. And supports inputs and outputs for json, xml, ini, toml, yaml, hcl, tf, and csv to varying degrees of capability.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal - Textualize/rich-cli
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Million Lint▲144Identify & fix slow code – Grammarly for performance
2024 · million.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I’m learning Rust and decided to build a universal CLI for running code in many languages. The tool, Run, aims to be a single, minimal dependency utility for: running one-off snippets (from CLI flags), running files, reading and executing piped stdin, and providing language-specific REPLs that you can switch between interactively. I designed it to support both interpreted languages (Python, JS, Ruby, etc.) and compiled languages (Rust, Go, C/C++). It detects languages from flags or file extensions, can compile temporary files for compiled languages, and exposes a unified REPL…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI powered cli coding agent that monitors your dev/test server and fixes errors and adds features - vysakh0/dravid
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A linter to prevent exception handling antipatterns in Python (limited only for those who like dinosaurs). - guilatrova/tryceratops
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 12FL
Hi HN! We just launched Codacy Guardrails, an IDE extension with a CLI for code analysis and MCP server that enforces security & quality rules on AI-generated code in real-time. It hooks into AI coding assistants (like VS Code Agent Mode, Cursor, Windsurf), silently scanning and fixing AI-suggested code that has vulnerabilities or violates your coding standards, while the code it’s being generated. We built this because coding agents can be a double-edged sword. They do boost productivity, but can easily introduce insecure or non-compliant code. One recent research team at NYU found that 40%…
2025 · its alternatives →
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A cli tool to automatically download and upload advent of code problems. - tobias-walle/advent-of-code-cli
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.
2020 · typer.tiangolo.com · its alternatives →
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A simple CLI that transforms your code into clean, structured text for feeding into LLMs. - NoahCristino/llmcat
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Onboard-CLI—a blazing-fast developer tool I built in Go. It uses AST parsing (Tree-sitter) to map out codebase architecture and automatically blocks spaghetti code and bad dependencies locally before you even commit. I heavily optimized the concurrency, so it can parse 50k+ files in under 10 seconds.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalist type-inferred programming language with procedural macro support - murisi/L2
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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autofix.ci automatically fixes pull requests to increase developer productivity
2022 · autofix.ci · its alternatives →
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Legacy code migration triage across 113 languages with AI
Jun 2026 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce Unied – a compact and efficient terminal text editor, developed in C using the Ncurses library. My goal was to create a tool that combines familiar simplicity with powerful features rarely found in CLI editors. What makes Unied special? * Intelligent Syntax Highlighting: Unied automatically detects if you're working with code (C, Python, JS, etc.) or plain text, and applies heuristic highlighting for comments, strings, numbers, operators, and keywords. No manual configurations – just start coding. * Intuitive Command System ("Command Puzzle…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built *CodeDrift*, a CLI tool that detects bugs commonly introduced by AI coding assistants like Copilot, Cursor and ChatGPT. Over the last year I noticed that AI tools often generate code that compiles correctly, passes linting and looks reasonable in code review but still contains subtle issues. Some common examples I kept seeing: * async `forEach` loops that never await promises * missing authorization checks (IDOR) * hallucinated dependencies that don’t exist * stack traces leaking sensitive information * request data used without validation These bugs often slip past ESLint,…
Mar 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve had this idea for a new code editor chord grammar bouncing around in my head for over 2 years, and now I can finally release v0.1 of ane. You can run it one-shot from scripts or agents (`ane exec —chord…`) or use its full-on TUI editor. ane is pure Rust, and integrates tree-sitter and LSP to provide a pleasant and predictable terminal code editing experience. I’d love folks to try it out and give feedback! Thanks :)
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, for the past couple of months, we've been developing Mify and I wanted to share it with the people here. We've been writing backends for multiple different big and small companies and noticed that backend development progresses in way too similar cycles. At first people write a small set of services or in better case a single service to do what's needed. At some point the tech debt becomes too much of a hassle to handle as company grows, engineers are starting to scale the codebase, rewriting code, splitting monolith, introducing microservices and eventually after a bunch of…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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