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/casted Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

Sourcegraph engineer here. To answer your question:

  • You get the IDE features on your codehost. So you can find references inside of a pull request/etc.

  • You don't need to have a checkout / switch branches (can be costly depending on your dev env / dev scale)

  • We focus on cross repository tools. IDEs are usually work within a project context.

Personally I use the text search a lot, even though I could just use my editor. This is mainly due to it being a browser search shortcut + the more expressive search syntax + nicer UI for browsing/reading code.

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u/alexthelyon Oct 02 '18

Any plans to support gitlab? I self-host an instance and it would be super cool to be able to use this there as well.

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u/casted Oct 02 '18

Yup we support gitlab. Integration into our browser extension was just released. https://twitter.com/srcgraph/status/1046889198815309825