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
sequoia
sonoma
ventura
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
ventura
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable p6.2.20250713.0
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

jansson 2.14.1 C library for encoding, decoding, and manipulating JSON
libyaml 0.2.5 YAML Parser
pcre2 10.45 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 0.21.2 Text processing system for reStructuredText
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.13 3.13.5 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Conflicts with: ctags

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
universal-ctags 1,418
universal-ctags --HEAD 145
Installs on Request (30 days)
universal-ctags 1,178
universal-ctags --HEAD 145
Build Errors (30 days)
universal-ctags --HEAD 15
Installs (90 days)
universal-ctags 7,447
universal-ctags --HEAD 700
Installs on Request (90 days)
universal-ctags 6,242
universal-ctags --HEAD 691
Installs (365 days)
universal-ctags 33,669
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,620
Installs on Request (365 days)
universal-ctags 27,568
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,589
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