Flycheck versus Flymake¶

This article compares Flycheck to the built-in Flymake mode. It does not consider third-party extensions such as flymake-easy, but references them at appropriate places.

We aim for this comparison to be fair and comprehensive, but it may contain stale information. Please report any inaccuracy you might find, and feel free to edit this page and improve it.

Note This comparison was updated at the time of the Emacs 26.1 release, which contains an overhaul of Flymake. If you are using Emacs 25.3 or below, you can still access the comparison between Flycheck and the legacy Flymake here.