Comment by loglog

Counting warnings is a poor practice, because you don't see where warnings exist or are added or removed while reading or writing code. Suppression annotations in code next to where the problem occurs are more explicit, and the progress is easy to measure with e.g. git log -S. The main difficulty is automating adding these annotations. For at least one static analysis systems, there is an off the shelf solution: https://github.com/palantir/suppressible-error-prone