Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
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Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
#2It's sad to see Sourcetrail didn't make it as a commercial product. I really enjoyed it when I tried it out a year or so ago.
I appreciate the retrospective on the hurdles you faced. Could you share some learnings for things that did work? I could tell you spent a lot of resources getting the onboarding flow correct (Visual Studio Project Import was nice!), anything related to onboarding-related learnings you can share?
Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
#3The site seems to be having intermittent connection issues due to the HN hug-of-death. In the meantime here's their Github repo:
Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
#4It's sad to see Sourcetrail didn't make it as a commercial product. I really enjoyed it when I tried it out a year or so ago. I appreciate the retrospective on the hurdles you faced. Could you share some learnings for things that did work? I could tell you spent a lot of resources getting the onboarding flow correct (Visual Studio Project Import was nice!), anything related to onboarding-related learnings you can sha…
Applying the tool on your codebase should be easy. For us, using the Clang Compilation Database format, that already holds all configurations to build a project was of great value for faster C and C++ project setup.
You cannot convince developers to use a tool with just words. They need to experience the benefits first hand. And getting to the benefits should happen as fast as possible after starting to test the tool.
Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
#5The site seems to be having intermittent connection issues due to the HN hug-of-death. In the meantime here's their Github repo: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
Thank you!
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#7The site seems to be having intermittent connection issues due to the HN hug-of-death. In the meantime here's their Github repo: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
Thanks for the link; the site is indeed down for me.
Honestly HN generates nowhere near enough traffic (from experience) that a site with any semblance of sane design/architecture cannot handle on even the constrained resources of a RaspberryPi.
Reddit /r/all on the other hand, I can understand.
Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
#8Came here to say I paid for this a couple of years ago and found it very useful (ended up using it on both C++ and Java codebases), do give it a try.
Sad to see that it didn't make it as a commercial product (wonder what lesson to draw from this ...)
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#9I've been following sourcetrail since the author did his cppcon talk. It does the job well - I remember loading Wolfenstein 3D into sourcetrail and watching the call graph explode from a single point of MAIN into a massive menorah of calls, all winding back to a circular buffer, and finally a single point of FREE. It was beautiful, and it's bittersweet to see the author go the open source route. I had high hopes for their commercial success.
Thanks for sourcetrail.
Re: Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
#10The site seems to be having intermittent connection issues due to the HN hug-of-death. In the meantime here's their Github repo: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
Thanks for the link; the site is indeed down for me. Honestly HN generates nowhere near enough traffic (from experience) that a site with any semblance of sane design/architecture cannot handle on even the constrained resources of a RaspberryPi. Reddit /r/all on the other hand, I can understand.
it hit reddit aswell