universal-ctags

Install command:
brew install universal-ctags

Maintained ctags implementation

https://ctags.io/

License: GPL-2.0-only

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 p6.2.20251102.0
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 0.22.2 Text processing system for reStructuredText
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.14 3.14.0 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Conflicts with: ctags

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
universal-ctags 3,457
universal-ctags --HEAD 151
Installs on Request (30 days)
universal-ctags 2,991
universal-ctags --HEAD 151
Build Errors (30 days)
universal-ctags --HEAD 13
Installs (90 days)
universal-ctags 8,324
universal-ctags --HEAD 757
Installs on Request (90 days)
universal-ctags 7,194
universal-ctags --HEAD 757
Installs (365 days)
universal-ctags 33,818
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,830
Installs on Request (365 days)
universal-ctags 28,262
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,803