diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c6ef998a2..677fcb237 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -31,3 +31,6 @@
 [submodule "extensions/flymake"]
 	path = extensions/flymake
 	url = http://github.com/illusori/emacs-flymake
+[submodule "extensions/flycheck"]
+	path = extensions/flycheck
+	url = http://github.com/syl20bnr/flycheck
diff --git a/extensions/flycheck b/extensions/flycheck
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..729b84bf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/flycheck
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 729b84bf5faaf47455b8dd2e57532531991c9b63
diff --git a/init-extension/init-flycheck.el b/init-extension/init-flycheck.el
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41d8c409d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-extension/init-flycheck.el
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+(require 'flycheck)
+
+(dolist (mode '(elixir
+                json
+                python))
+
+(add-hook (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-mode-hook"))
+		  'flycheck-mode))
diff --git a/init-package/init-flymake-elixir.el b/init-package/init-flymake-elixir.el
deleted file mode 100644
index fdfdf0f60..000000000
--- a/init-package/init-flymake-elixir.el
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-(require 'flymake-elixir)
-
-(eval-after-load 'elixir-mode
-  (add-hook 'elixir-mode-hook 'flymake-elixir-load))
-
diff --git a/init-package/init-flymake-python-pyflakes.el b/init-package/init-flymake-python-pyflakes.el
deleted file mode 100644
index 04a502341..000000000
--- a/init-package/init-flymake-python-pyflakes.el
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-(require 'flymake-python-pyflakes)
-(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'flymake-python-pyflakes-load)
diff --git a/init-package/init-json-mode.el b/init-package/init-json-mode.el
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..09146971a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-package/init-json-mode.el
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+(require 'json-mode)
diff --git a/packages.el b/packages.el
index fd1396bed..7d652ea15 100644
--- a/packages.el
+++ b/packages.el
@@ -30,11 +30,7 @@
     flymake
     flymake-cursor
     flymake-easy
-    flymake-elixir
     flymake-haskell-multi
-    flymake-json
-    flymake-python-pyflakes
-    flymake-ruby
     fold-this
     fuzzy
     ghc
@@ -45,6 +41,7 @@
     htmlize
     ;; ido-ubiquitous
     jedi
+    json-mode
     key-chord
     less-css-mode
     magit
diff --git a/post-extensions.el b/post-extensions.el
index 4d225a13d..bf423c16c 100644
--- a/post-extensions.el
+++ b/post-extensions.el
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     elixir
     ;; emacs-eclim
     evil-plugins
+    flycheck
     mu4e
     o-blog
     pylookup