Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit
Hey HN! We’re Jai and Sanket, co-founders of DeepSource (YC W20). We're open-sourcing Globstar (https://github.com/DeepSourceCorp/globstar), a static analysis toolkit that lets you easily write and run custom code quality and security checkers in YAML [1] or Go [2]. After 5+ years of building AST-based static analyzers that process millions of lines of code daily at DeepSource, we kept hearing a common request from customers: "How do we write custom checks specific to our codebase?" AppSec and DevOps teams have a lot of learned anti-patterns and security rules they want…
Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit launched on February 28, 2025 with 103 votes, #376 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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Globstar is an open-source static analysis toolkit that enables users to create custom code quality and security checkers using YAML or Go. Developed by DeepSource, it uses Abstract Syntax Tree technology to analyze code across multiple programming languages. The tool is designed for AppSec and DevOps teams who need to enforce organization-specific coding standards and security rules without requiring deep expertise in static analysis.
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Hey HN! We’re Jai and Sanket, co-founders of DeepSource (YC W20). We're open-sourcing Globstar (https://github.com/DeepSourceCorp/globstar), a static analysis toolkit that lets you easily write and run custom code quality and security checkers in YAML [1] or Go [2]. After 5+ years of building…
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