Spoon comparisons
Spoon is compared head-to-head with ReSharper, ast-grep and CodeRush and more: 7 head-to-heads in Code Refactoring Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Spoon head-to-head
- Spoon vs ReSharper
- Spoon vs ast-grep
- Spoon vs CodeRush
- Spoon vs DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
- Spoon vs jscodeshift
- Spoon vs Coccinelle
- Spoon vs OpenRewrite
Spoon vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Supported languages | Refactoring scope | Batch refactoring | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Spoon | Yes | Free | Java | Repository | Yes | 8.1 |
| 1 | ReSharper | Yes | C#, Visual Basic, C++, HTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, XML, XAML, MSBuild, NAnt, JSON, Protobuf | Yes | 9.2 | ||
| 2 | ast-grep | Free | 8.7 | ||||
| 3 | CodeRush | Yes | $249.99/user/yr | C#, Visual Basic, XAML, Blazor, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, Razor | Project | Yes | 8.5 |
| 4 | DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit | No | C, C++, C#, Java, Fortran, Pascal, Ada, COBOL, Natural, JCL, JavaScript, PHP, VB.NET, VBScript, VB6, Python, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, MATLAB M, Simulink, Verilog, VHDL, SystemC, and other extensible language domains | Repository | Yes | 8.3 | |
| 5 | jscodeshift | Yes | Free | JavaScript, TypeScript, Flow | Project | Yes | 8.3 |
| 7 | Coccinelle | Yes | Free | C, C++ | Repository | Yes | 7.9 |
| 8 | OpenRewrite | Free | Java, Kotlin, Groovy | Repository | Yes | 7.9 |
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