diff --git a/.clang-tidy b/.clang-tidy
index f0cc73c23a..ab41236f36 100644
--- a/.clang-tidy
+++ b/.clang-tidy
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Checks: 'misc-*, -misc-definitions-in-headers, -misc-non-private-member-variables-in-classes, -misc-no-recursion, -misc-include-cleaner, -misc-use-anonymous-namespace'
+Checks: 'modernize-*, misc-*, -misc-definitions-in-headers, -misc-non-private-member-variables-in-classes, -misc-no-recursion, -misc-include-cleaner, -misc-use-anonymous-namespace, -modernize-use-trailing-return-type, -modernize-use-nodiscard, -modernize-use-emplace, -modernize-loop-convert, -modernize-pass-by-value, -modernize-use-equals-delete, -modernize-use-equals-default, -modernize-use-override, -modernize-avoid-c-arrays, -modernize-raw-string-literal, -modernize-concat-nested-namespaces'
diff --git a/source/cppfront.cpp b/source/cppfront.cpp
index a5dbb00ca5..a74264a0af 100644
--- a/source/cppfront.cpp
+++ b/source/cppfront.cpp
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ auto main(
                     auto total_time = print_with_thousands(t.elapsed().count());
                     std::cout << "\n   Time  " << total_time << " ms";
 
-                    std::multimap< long long, std::string_view, std::greater<long long> > sorted_timers;
+                    std::multimap< long long, std::string_view, std::greater<> > sorted_timers;
                     for (auto [name, t] : timers) {
                         sorted_timers.insert({t.elapsed().count(), name});
                     }
diff --git a/source/io.h b/source/io.h
index d7b71e1879..c320ff3373 100644
--- a/source/io.h
+++ b/source/io.h
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ class source
     static const int max_line_len = 90'000;
         //  do not reduce this - I encountered an 80,556-char
         //  line in real world code during testing
-    char buf[max_line_len];
+    char buf[max_line_len] {0};
 
 public:
     //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -854,7 +854,6 @@ class source
     )
         : errors{ errors_ }
         , lines( 1 )        // extra blank to avoid off-by-one everywhere
-        , buf{0}
     {
     }
 
diff --git a/source/parse.h b/source/parse.h
index 1ca2c3a492..6249f95a55 100644
--- a/source/parse.h
+++ b/source/parse.h
@@ -3325,7 +3325,7 @@ struct declaration_node
     {
         //  Convert the gather_ results to const*
         auto tmp = gather_type_scope_declarations(w);
-        return std::vector<declaration_node const*>(tmp.begin(), tmp.end());
+        return {tmp.begin(), tmp.end()};
     }