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Re: Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code

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Sourcegraph CEO here. Thanks for posting! Our new VS Code-based UI makes Sourcegraph a better way for you to read a codebase on the web with the full power and intelligence of an editor, without the hassle of cloning or configuration. It provides jump-to-def, hovers, find references, advanced search, symbol search, cross-repo references, etc., for any repo and any commit on GitHub (in Go, Java, and some other languages...more coming soon).

If you find yourself reading code on GitHub a lot, or cloning repos to open and read in your editor, you'll find Sourcegraph useful. If not, then you probably won't find it useful yet, but you might like our Chrome extension, which adds these features inline on GitHub.com (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for-gi...).

We'd love feedback. Try hovering over some tokens at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/checkup@maste..., for example. Click on the smiley in the bottom right to give feedback.

Huge thanks to the VS Code team for building an amazing and extensible open-source code editor that we can build on.

Re: Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code

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main/out/vs sure looks like vscode artifacts, not just monaco set up all nice with a fileviewer/split panes Super awesome to see vscode running outside electron - http://imgur.com/L6ipQgb - https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor

Sourcegraph CEO here. Indeed, this is based on the full version of VS Code, with heavy customizations and a new scalable language server backend for code intelligence. Huge thanks to the VSCode team for making an awesome editor core.

We will have a technical blog post with more details soon. :)

Re: Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code

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main/out/vs sure looks like vscode artifacts, not just monaco set up all nice with a fileviewer/split panes Super awesome to see vscode running outside electron - http://imgur.com/L6ipQgb - https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor

Sourcegraph CEO here. Indeed, this is based on the full version of VS Code, with heavy customizations and a new scalable language server backend for code intelligence. Huge thanks to the VSCode team for making an awesome editor core. We will have a technical blog post with more details soon. :)

Looks really awesome I have to say. I use Sourcegraph on a daily basis and this is a welcome improvement. Looks way more organized and better to grasp at first sight. Good job!

Re: Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code

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post #3

Sourcegraph CEO here. Thanks for posting! Our new VS Code-based UI makes Sourcegraph a better way for you to read a codebase on the web with the full power and intelligence of an editor, without the hassle of cloning or configuration. It provides jump-to-def, hovers, find references, advanced search, symbol search, cross-repo references, etc., for any repo and any commit on GitHub (in Go, Java, and some other languag…

opening a file takes too long, likely due to minimap. I'd disable expensive eye-candies by default.

Re: Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code

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Sourcegraph CEO here. Thanks for posting! Our new VS Code-based UI makes Sourcegraph a better way for you to read a codebase on the web with the full power and intelligence of an editor, without the hassle of cloning or configuration. It provides jump-to-def, hovers, find references, advanced search, symbol search, cross-repo references, etc., for any repo and any commit on GitHub (in Go, Java, and some other languag…

opening a file takes too long, likely due to minimap. I'd disable expensive eye-candies by default.

Sorry about that. We do need to improve the UI perf. Can you try it with the minimap off and let me know if it's faster? There is a "secret" way to disable the minimap: (1) hit Cmd-Shift-P or F1, (2) go to "Preferences: Open User Settings", (3) search for the "editor.minimap.enabled" setting, (4) hover over it and press the pencil and select "false". Then go back to the file and it should not display anymore in your current browser.

Re: Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code

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Can someone put this in some context for me? It's an IDE as a service, or what?

Sourcegraph CEO here. It is for reading code. It gives you the full power of an editor (jump-to-def, hovers, find references, advanced search, symbol search, cross-repo references, etc.) for any repo at any commit on GitHub. It supports Go and Java right now, with some more languages in beta.

If you find yourself reading code on GitHub a lot, or cloning repos to open and read in your editor, you'll find it useful. If not, then you probably won't find it useful, but you might like our Chrome extension, which adds these features inline on GitHub.com (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for-gi...).

Re: Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sourcegraph CEO here. Indeed, this is based on the full version of VS Code, with heavy customizations and a new scalable language server backend for code intelligence. Huge thanks to the VSCode team for making an awesome editor core. We will have a technical blog post with more details soon. :)

Looks really awesome I have to say. I use Sourcegraph on a daily basis and this is a welcome improvement. Looks way more organized and better to grasp at first sight. Good job!

Thanks for the nice feedback! Our team is pumped to hear this. Keep the feedback coming, especially the things you don't like. :)
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