Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 25 Oct 2026, the same day before this check.
Latest release v2.15.0 on 16 Oct 2026.
Public since May 2018, a little over 8 years.
19,469 stars and 1,639 forks.
139 commits and 51 new issues in the last 90 days.
399 contributors. 129 pull requests merged in 90 days.
No security policy file 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
Writing computer programs can lead to simple mistakes and bad habits. This tool reads your source code before you run it. It points out hidden bugs, unused variables, and style slips. It runs many different checking programs at the same time to save you time. You can run it on your own computer or set it up to check your code automatically every time you save.
What it is
golangci-lint (a command-line tool that runs many code checking programs at once for the Go programming language) bundles over a hundred individual checks into a single fast runner. It caches previous results so it only checks parts of your code that changed.
What it is good for
Solo builders writing software in Go who want to catch silly mistakes before users find them, without having to run ten different checking tools by hand.
- Runs over a hundred code checks in parallel so it finishes fast.
- Caches results to make repeated checks even faster.
- Works with all major text editors and development environments.
- Requires you to have the Go programming language installed on your computer.
- Can produce too many warnings at first until you configure which checks to run.
- Licenced under GPL-3.0 (a licence that requires you to share your source code if you distribute modified versions of the tool).
Running multiple individual code checking programs one by one by hand.
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curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin v2.15.0