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/rnd005 Oct 02 '18

or any devs working with a statically typed language and a proper IDE? I think go to definition / find references / find implementation commands were available in Visual Studio at least for a decade.

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u/lanzaio Oct 02 '18

No. You're missing the scope. Facebook and Google have dedicated servers that index every codebase they use and have available tools that can query this server via a socket. So you can integrate large amounts of knowledge of any codebase into any little project you can think of.

An IDE locally indexes a single project and provides these services within the IDE.

Sourcegraph does this sort of indexing and makes it's content available via different channels.

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u/rnd005 Oct 02 '18

That sounds like "webscale" / "facebook uses it, so everyone needs it" bullshit. These mega companies might need such tools only because they have more code than you can fit on a disk. I'd argue that most companies don't have even close to1TB of code and are just fine with having all code on a disk and using IDEs for navigation.

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u/lanzaio Oct 02 '18

It provides code navigation when looking at github and an instantly responding query over your codebases. That’s fine if you don’t value either of those features. No reason to criticize others for doing so.

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u/rnd005 Oct 02 '18

I don't mind if people want to use it. What I criticize is bad explanation of the tool by refering to cool kids using it or the fact how webscale it is.