clang-format comparisons
clang-format is compared head-to-head with dprint, Prettier and Spotless and more: 7 head-to-heads in Code Formatting Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
clang-format head-to-head
- clang-format vs dprint
- clang-format vs Prettier
- clang-format vs Spotless
- clang-format vs Biome
- clang-format vs Black
- clang-format vs Ruff
- clang-format vs Scalafmt
clang-format vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Supported languages | Supported platforms | Editor integration | Ignore files | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | clang-format | Yes | None | C, C++, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Objective-C, Protocol Buffers, C#, TableGen, TextProto, Verilog | Windows, macOS, Linux | Yes | Yes | 7.4 |
| 1 | dprint | — | None | TypeScript, JavaScript, JSX, TSX, JSON, JSONC, Markdown, TOML, CSS, SCSS, Sass, Less, Dockerfile, C#, VB, Python, Jupyter, Go, Swift, HTML, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Angular, Jinja, Twig, Nunjucks, Vento, GraphQL, YAML, PHP, Quarto, Pandoc, R Markdown, LaTeX, BibTeX, R, Julia | Windows, macOS, Linux, WSL, Node.js, Deno | Yes | Yes | 9.0 |
| 2 | Prettier | — | None | JavaScript, JSX, Angular, Vue, Flow, TypeScript, CSS, Less, SCSS, HTML, Ember/Handlebars, JSON, GraphQL, Markdown, GFM, MDX v1, YAML, LWC, MJML | Browser and JavaScript API | Yes | Yes | 8.2 |
| 3 | Spotless | — | None | ANTLR, C, C#, C++, CSS, Flow, GraphQL, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, JSX, Kotlin, Less, Markdown, Objective-C, Protobuf, Python, Scala, SCSS, Shell, SQL, TypeScript, Vue, YAML, Gherkin, Go, RDF, Anything | Gradle, Maven, SBT, other build systems | Yes | Yes | 7.7 |
| 5 | Biome | Yes | None | — | — | — | — | 7.1 |
| 6 | Black | Yes | None | Python | Windows, macOS, Linux, local HTTP API | Yes | Yes | 6.9 |
| 7 | Ruff | Yes | None | — | — | — | — | 6.8 |
| 8 | Scalafmt | Yes | None | Scala 2, Scala 3, sbt, Scala scripts | CLI, editors, build tools, standalone library | Yes | Yes | 6.6 |
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