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Workspace-level lints

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Description

Description

https://reviews.llvm.org/D124447

clang-tidy introduces infrastructure to create project-level diagnostics. They write a summary file per source file. In the diagnostic phase, they read all the summaries.

  • You could tell me which crate in my workspace is of the lowest quality.
  • With a global-view you could find new diagnostics that you cannot find with a local view
  • get creative
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Research direction

Start by reading the linked LLVM review, https://reviews.llvm.org/D124447, to understand the project-level diagnostic infrastructure and its summary files. Define a concrete workspace-level lint use case and an observable completion criterion before selecting the relevant Clippy entry points and tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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