Roslyn analyzers
Shares rank 8 of 12 static analyzers by recommenders
People recommend Roslyn analyzers for enforcing architecture and conventions at build time and catching invalid or inefficient code that tests can miss. No critics were recorded.
People recommend Roslyn analyzers for enforcing architecture and conventions at build time and catching invalid or inefficient code that tests can miss. No critics were recorded.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Enforces architecture and conventions at build
“Getting it to write it's own guardrails by creating Roslyn Analyzers to make the build fail when it deviates from the project architecture and conventions has been another big win.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis” “we've added multiple Roslyn analysers to our build pipeline to check for invalid/inefficient code”
Comment from 12 Jan 2026 in “Don't fall into the anti-AI hype” “you can also make compilation much stricter with Roslyn analyzers”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “C# now beats Rust on WASM size” Powerful for finding code issues
“I think tools like Roslyn Analyzers might be more powerful than unit tests in this application.”
Comment from 12 May 2026 in “If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?” “Roslyn analyzers are so incredibly powerful, and it's being ignored.”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Claude Code gets native LSP support” “are quite powerful and can identify complex patterns in code”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Towards Self-Driving Codebases” Catches structural coding mistakes
“They are quite capable of covering for many common types of structural coding mistakes”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 in “Towards Self-Driving Codebases” “are quite powerful and can identify complex patterns in code”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Towards Self-Driving Codebases” Guards AI-written code with LLMs
“Getting it to write it's own guardrails by creating Roslyn Analyzers to make the build fail when it deviates from the project architecture and conventions has been another big win.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis” “combining Roslyn analyzers with an LLM and a human in the loop could be game changing”
Comment from 16 Dec 2025 in “AI will make formal verification go mainstream”
Other static analyzers people recommend
The four most recommended other static analyzers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zizmor | 19 | 1 | 95% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Semgrep | 14 | 10 | 58% | 7 | — | — |
| clang-tidy | 14 | 4 | 78% | 6 | — | Approved |
| PHPStan | 11 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Roslyn analyzersThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you can also make compilation much stricter with Roslyn analyzers”
“They are quite capable of covering for many common types of structural coding mistakes”
“are quite powerful and can identify complex patterns in code”
“I think tools like Roslyn Analyzers might be more powerful than unit tests in this application.”
“Very good static typing, Roslyn analyzers, good tooling”
“we've added multiple Roslyn analysers to our build pipeline to check for invalid/inefficient code”
“Roslyn analyzers are so incredibly powerful, and it's being ignored.”
“Getting it to write it's own guardrails by creating Roslyn Analyzers to make the build fail when it deviates from the project architecture and conventions has been another big win.”
“combining Roslyn analyzers with an LLM and a human in the loop could be game changing”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.