This seems especially useful when you don't want to think about how to set up linting, and what rules you want to use. There's a similar tool for Python, called

This seems especially useful when you don't want to think about how to set up linting, and what rules you want to use. There's a similar tool for Python, called prospector: https://github.com/landscapeio/prospector https://github.com/landscapeio/prospector With coala you need to configure which linters run on which files, and we recognize this as a thing we can improve upon. We're soon going to ship a feature which will allow configuration to just specify where the files are (e.g. 'src/*.py') and what aspects to check (e.g. 'syntax,smells,duplication,security'). Then coala will decide which tools are appropriate, get them from pip/npm/wherever, and run them.