terryyin/lizard
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A simple code complexity analyser without caring about the C/C++ header files or Java imports, supports most of the popular languages.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2017-01-06 · latest 2025-09-08
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https://github.com/terryyin/lizard has been useful to track when functions get too convoluted or long, or when there's too much duplication -- in code generated by agents. Still have to see how well it works long term but it's caught…
comment by nikki93 · 2025-09-08 · in Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver -
…standard adherence is assessed using a set of static and dynamic code analysers such as Lizard ( https://github.com/terryyin/lizard ) or the Clang address sanitiser (https: //clang.llvm.org/). It returns a score between 0 (low adherence)…
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