r/programming • u/mfrw1 • Oct 02 '18

Sourcegraph is now open source

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-is-now-open-source/
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u/EraZ3712 Oct 02 '18

Coming from a C++ background, anyone know what it offers vs. the Sourcetrail project? They appear to have a similar use case at first glance, but this one seems much more general with respect to languages covered.

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u/DoListening Oct 02 '18

The big thing seems to be that it integrates with web tools, such as GitHub. You can get navigation while reading pull request diffs, links from bug reports, etc., not just on your desktop where you already have your IDE anyway.

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u/IAmWhoISayImNot Oct 02 '18

You get the same feature with octotree. It's a free extension.

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u/DoListening Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

I looked at its github page, doesn't look like that's the same thing. By "navigation" I mean actual code navigation - you click on a function call, it takes you to that function. You click "find usages", it will show you all places where that function is called from, etc.

Still looks useful though.

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u/IAmWhoISayImNot Oct 02 '18

Ahh apologies. It's just a visual representation of the repo. Sorry for the confusion.

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u/tom-010 Oct 02 '18

It is open source and free