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> Because checks in Error Prone are self-contained and written against the javac abstract syntax tree ... it is relatively easy for developers outside the team
by sanxiyn 9y ago
> Because checks in Error Prone are self-contained and written against the javac abstract syntax tree ... it is relatively easy for developers outside the team to contribute checks... As of January 2018, 733 checks had been contributed by 162 authors.
Somewhat interestingly, Clippy is an analogous tool for Rust and has 181 contributors now, more than Error Prone. https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-clippy https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-clippy