Source Insight Alternatives for Linux

Source Insight is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Understand. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Woboq Code Browser or Source-Navigator NG. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Source Insight and eight of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Source Insight are Blink grep, Houndci, OpenGrok and ftnchek.

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    Understand

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    Understand is a static analysis tool for maintaining, measuring, and analyzing critical or large code bases. Supports programming languages (C/C++, C#, FORTRAN, Java, JOVIAL, Pascal, PL/M, VHDL, Cobol) and web languages (PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Almost everyone thinks Understand is a great Source Insight alternative.

    • Understand is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Source Insight.

    • Understand is the most popular commercial alternative to Source Insight.

    • Understand is Paid and ProprietarySource Insight is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Woboq Code Browser

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    Woboq Code Browser is a web-based C and C++ code browser that uses a desktop component to generate static HTML pages for code analysis. It focuses on improving the code navigation with proper semantic highlighting and tooltips.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Source-Navigator NG icon

    Source-Navigator NG

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    Source-Navigator NG is a source code analysis tool. With it, you can edit your source code, display relationships between classes and functions and members, and display call trees. you can navigate your source code and easily get to declarations or implementations of functions, v.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Blink grep

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    GUI of indexed grep for source code, files locator, search and replace. Switch differnt projects and start searching. Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Houndci

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    Hound comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests, allowing you and your team to better review and maintain a clean codebase. Hound keeps your code style in check.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    OpenGrok

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    OpenGrok is a source code search and cross reference engine. It helps programmers to search, cross-reference and navigate source code trees.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    ftnchek

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    ftnchek is a static analyzer for Fortran 77 programs. It is designed to detect certain errors in a Fortran program that a compiler usually does not.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    CodeWalker

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    CodeWalker™ is a developer tool that shows you how your source code fits together, how it's structured, and how it executes. Instantly compare complex structures, find unintentional recursion, and just see how your code actually works, in 2D and 3D modes. It's like GPS for your code.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Steam
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