Fallow – Find unused code, duplication, and complexity in TS/JS (Rust)
Sub-second dead code detection in Rust when ESLint and TypeScript already exist.
Detect phantom and unused dependencies across multiple languages using a fast Rust-based CLI
One CLI finds phantom and unused deps across five languages when per-language tools already exist.
Backend developers, DevOps engineers, maintainers of multi-language repos
knip · depcheck · pipreqs
Sub-second dead code detection in Rust when ESLint and TypeScript already exist.
Memory-mapped zero-copy scanning is clever, but 'block AI slop' is marketing over substance.
Single-purpose CLI for a solved problem; remove.bg has better use cases.
20x faster knip—performance leap is real, but dependency linters are crowded and knip already solved this.
Immune system anomaly detection beats ML without training data, dependencies, or GPU.
Regex instead of AST parsing: 12ms dependency tree for 500 files versus 50ms+ for competitors.