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Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by nebucnaut » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

RussianCow wrote: post #8

nickpresta wrote: post #7

What languages are supported? At least on mobile, there is zero mention of language support outside of testimonials and screenshots. Is it just Java and C++?

The intro video mentions Java, C, and C++.

Right, it's "just" Java, C and C++ for now but we are planning to extend our available languages as soon as possible!

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by skibz » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

There doesn't seem to be a vscode plugin for Sourcetrail. Could be a worthwhile addition?

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by nautilus12 » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

I doubt you could ever get something like this working for Ruby, which is where it is actually badly needed.

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by malnourish » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

egraether wrote: post #5

problems wrote: post #3

What's the C++ support like?

Sourcetrail developer here: Pretty solid. We use clang libTooling.

How's the performance on a large codebase?

North of 500k lines, few thousand cpp/h files, 40+mb

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by peternicky » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

Can you please share the roadmap for adding new language support?

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by egraether » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #9

egraether wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sourcetrail developer here: Pretty solid. We use clang libTooling.

C# support would be cool too!

Yes, that's on the list as well.

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by nebucnaut » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:35 PM UTC

malnourish wrote: post #14

egraether wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sourcetrail developer here: Pretty solid. We use clang libTooling.

How's the performance on a large codebase? North of 500k lines, few thousand cpp/h files, 40+mb

We have been working on that for the past few month. Right now the performance is pretty good for C++ projects up to around 2 million lines of code. For C projects the performance is even better! If you want to test it, just download the pre-indexed clang project (900k loc) from our website (https://www.sourcetrail.com/downloads#extra). Indexing the project took 12 minutes on a 5 year old laptop.

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by nebucnaut » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

nautilus12 wrote: post #13

I doubt you could ever get something like this working for Ruby, which is where it is actually badly needed.

Yes, dynamically typed languages are much harder to tackle :/

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by egraether » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:41 PM UTC

skibz wrote: post #12

There doesn't seem to be a vscode plugin for Sourcetrail. Could be a worthwhile addition?

It hasn't been requested so far. Is it actively used by C/C++ or Java developers?

Re: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

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Post by egraether » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

egraether wrote: post #19

skibz wrote: post #12

There doesn't seem to be a vscode plugin for Sourcetrail. Could be a worthwhile addition?

It hasn't been requested so far. Is it actively used by C/C++ or Java developers?

Nevertheless I opened a feature request to track demand: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailBugTracker/issue...