coala is a free and open-source language independent analysis toolkit, written in Python. The primary goal of coala is to make it easier for developers to create rules which a project's code should conform to. coala emphasizes on reusability and pluggability of analysis routines, and the principle of don't repeat yourself (DRY).
On 6 May it was featured on SDTimes.com as GitHub Project of the Week. coala was also featured in the hackerpublicradio. On 9 May 2016, an article was published on Medium by Gitter regarding its community.
Features
Bears
Bears in coala are the equivalent plugins or extensions which provide some analysis routines. Bears can be language dependent as well as language independent. The language dependent bears supported by the coala community provide analysis routines for more than 30 languages.
Integrations
Integrations with a few editors/IDEs have been supported. This includes:
Atom
Sublime Text 3
Vim
gedit
Emacs
Eclipse
There are also interfaces with different visualizations provided like the web interface, command-line, D-Bus, and JSON.