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Re:Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit by markrian on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:45PM (#43209516)
Interesting! Do you have a page which compares globstar against other similar tools, like Semgrep, ast-grep, Comby, etc?

For instance, something like https://ast-grep.github.io/advanced/tool-comparison.html#com....

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Re:Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit by sanketsaurav on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:00PM (#43210742)
Not at the moment, but we'll put something up soon.

We're focused on keeping globstar light-weight, so a hosted runtime is not in the roadmap (although we'll add support for running Globstar checkers natively on our commercial product DeepSource). You should be able to write any checkers in Globstar that you can write in the other tools you've listed.

Our goal is to make it very easy to write these checkers — so we'd be optimizing the runtime and our Go API for that.

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