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CodeQL

brew install --cask codeql v2.25.6

Semantic code analysis engine for querying and analyzing source code to find vulnerabilities.

Why you might care

CodeQL lets you treat code as data, writing queries to find security issues, bugs, and patterns across large codebases. It's the engine behind GitHub's security scanning and favored by security researchers and enterprises for deep code analysis.

Categories

dev-tools security

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