Sunsetting Cyclomatic Complexity in favor of Cognitive Complexity plugin

[matkoch]

Hi folks!

There is a Cognitive Complexity plugin available for while. In my opinion it can act as a full and even better replacement. In the wild I've seen some folks who had both plugins enabled and it was never clear to my why.

If you have strong objections, then please leave a comment below!

Thanks

[ArminOebb]

I was also using both plugins, because cognitive and cyclomatic complexity values are calculated differently, and while the cyclomatic value can be okay, the cognitive value could be already "red". I mainly use it to align to the sonar rules already during developement, which also has both categories "cognitive complexity" and "cyclomatic complexity", so I can avoid having to refactor the code, after the sonar checks.

[matkoch]

Thanks for your input. FTR, I'm reading this more as a background story rather than an objection.

[chfn]

Thanks for the suggestion (it works). (I was looking for recent reported bugs because the Cyclomatic Complexity plugin is not working anymore. )

[udlose]

@matkoch aren't these 2 different code metrics though?

[matkoch]

@udlose I think of cognitive as the successor to cyclomatic complexity.