Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 23 Oct 2026, 2 days before this check.
Latest release v1.3.0 on 12 May 2026.
Public since January 2015, a little over 11 years.
15,729 stars and 2,100 forks.
94 commits and 20 new issues in the last 90 days.
233 contributors. 88 pull requests merged in 90 days.
A security policy says how to report a problem. No published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 26 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub.
In simple English
This tool checks your code before you run it. It looks for hidden bugs, crashes, and memory leaks. It scans programs written in C, C++, Java, and Objective-C. Big companies use it to stop bad updates from reaching users. You need a computer that can run command-line tools to set it up.
What it is
Infer (a static analyzer, which is a program that reads your source code to find errors without executing it) scans codebases for deep programming flaws. It is written in OCaml (a fast programming language known for safety) and developed by Meta.
What it is good for
Solo developers building native apps or system tools who want to catch null pointer errors and memory leaks early.
- Catches hard-to-find memory bugs early.
- Works on four major programming languages.
- Free to use under an MIT licence.
- Complex to set up for non-programmers.
- Requires a powerful computer for large codebases.
- Java support may pull in GPL dependencies.
manual code reviews
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brew install infer