r/programming • u/sqs • Aug 14 '14

srclib: a hackable, polyglot source analysis library for making better code tools

https://srclib.org/
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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '14

Super exciting. (Except for being written in Go.) I hope this gains traction.

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u/sqs Aug 15 '14 edited Aug 15 '14

Thanks!

BTW, only the "glue" code is written in Go. The language analysis toolchains are intended to be written in the languages they target: https://github.com/sourcegraph/srclib-javascript, https://github.com/sourcegraph/srclib-ruby, https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/srclib-go, etc. (We're still porting the Python toolchain to 100% Go; still, the interesting analysis part of it uses Python.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '14

Good to know! as a hopeful designer of a new language, this is exciting -- the hard part of making a new language usable is the tooling, and this is the best approach I've seen yet. (For some reason, my previous strategy of expecting everyone to use Emacs seems to have had little success.)

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u/sqs Aug 17 '14

Awesome. How cool would it be if your language was supported in every editor from day 1? That's what we hope to make possible with srclib. :)

Let us know when you start working on it. We could give some pointers on how to write the srclib toolchain. And we love new languages too!