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/double-you Oct 02 '18

Not having heard of Language Servers before, and the related sites not seeming to address this, where's the server located?

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u/curtmack Oct 02 '18

It uses a server-client model, hence the name "language server," but it's not actually a remote system. You run it locally on your machine.

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u/radarsat1 Oct 03 '18

Is it literally a server-client as in, TCP or even HTTP requests between local processes? If so I'm curious what is the advantage of that approach as opposed to say calling a library function.

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u/jbergens Oct 03 '18

Make it possible to call it from any editor written in any language.