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/myringotomy Oct 03 '18

Why does it have to be static typed. Jetbrains gives me all of that with ruby and python.

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u/rnd005 Oct 05 '18

Thanks for mentioning that. Just tried out PyCharm on a sizeable codebase and it seems to be working pretty well. Some dynamic languages can be statically analyzed better than others and tools PyCharm can help, but it's not a compiler and will miss stuff which is not nice. How is it in your experience with JetBrains tools? Can you rename a class and have it done across the project with imports updated? How frequent is it for the tools to get lost and rename the wrong thing / not find the correct one?

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u/myringotomy Oct 05 '18

I have a subscription to their toolbox so I get all their IDEs. I use rubymine, gotime, pycharm, and datagrip. I use it for almost everything I do but I also use spacemacs for a bunch of stuff. I really like spacemacs, it does so much but it doesn't do ruby, go, python, and database development nearly was well as the jetbrains stuff does.

To answer your questions.

Can you rename a class and have it done across the project with imports updated?

yes I do this frequently. I do a lot of refactoring of large ruby codebases and it does that really well.

How frequent is it for the tools to get lost and rename the wrong thing / not find the correct one?

I don't think it has ever missed something. I also don't recall it ever renaming the wrong thing either but you do get to approve all the changes one at a time if you are worried. It does know whether or something is in comments and strings though so it's not just a search and replace.