Original Post: Our quest to make world-class security and bugfinding available to all developers, for free
Isaac Evans, CEO and co-founder of r2c, discusses the launch of Bento, a free toolkit designed to help developers use linters and program analysis tools more easily. Bento aims to bring powerful code analysis tools, typically used by large companies, to a broader audience, especially those who can’t afford such resources. The toolkit includes both custom analyses and community-created tools that run offline, ensuring no code leaves the user’s machine.
r2c’s mission is to make sophisticated code analysis accessible to all developers, especially those working in environments like small teams, non-profits, or startups handling sensitive data. Bento is currently in alpha and can be installed via pip. It focuses on finding significant bugs and security issues rather than style-related concerns. The toolkit includes configurations optimized from real-world data to enhance code correctness and security.
The Bento team emphasizes ease of use, quick setup, and continuous improvement. Future developments include custom tools for the Flask web framework and the addition of new checks based on community feedback. The overarching goal is to help developers identify and fix critical issues efficiently without bogging them down with numerous linter results.
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