universal-ctags

Install command:
brew install universal-ctags

Maintained ctags implementation

https://ctags.io/

License: GPL-2.0-only

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/universal-ctags.json

Formula code: universal-ctags.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable p6.2.20260125.0
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

jansson 2.14.1 C library for encoding, decoding, and manipulating JSON
libyaml 0.2.5 YAML Parser
pcre2 10.47 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.72 Automatic configure script builder
automake 1.18.1 Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
docutils 0.22.4 Text processing system for reStructuredText
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.14 3.14.2 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Conflicts with: ctags

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
universal-ctags 3,000
universal-ctags --HEAD 31
Installs on Request (30 days)
universal-ctags 2,564
universal-ctags --HEAD 31
Build Errors (30 days)
universal-ctags --HEAD 1
Installs (90 days)
universal-ctags 8,352
universal-ctags --HEAD 162
Installs on Request (90 days)
universal-ctags 7,180
universal-ctags --HEAD 162
Installs (365 days)
universal-ctags 33,056
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,391
Installs on Request (365 days)
universal-ctags 28,005
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,370