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Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by sqs »

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/).

Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by diggan »

sqs wrote: post #2

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/ ). Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

Hey! Quick question.

Are looking for the source code to see if you're working on a PHP implementation. Hard to find any links though. Then I started the think, maybe it's not open source at all?

Didn't find any information so, is it open source? In that case, where?

Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by adamnemecek »

diggan wrote: post #3
sqs wrote: post #2

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/ ). Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

Hey! Quick question. Are looking for the source code to see if you're working on a PHP implementation. Hard to find any links though. Then I started the think, maybe it's not open source at all? Didn't find any information so, is it open source? In that case, where?

There's a Github link on the website right below the email signup

https://github.com/sourcegraph/srclib

Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by adamnemecek »

sqs wrote: post #2

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/ ). Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

Did you guys consider hooking this up with llvm since it provides call graph generation for the supported languages? If so what was the conclusion? If not I might look into it, no promises though.

Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by michaelmior »

sqs wrote: post #2

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/ ). Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

For a tool which is all about being language agnostic, I'm curious why you went with Go struct definitions to define the formats instead of something like JSON Schema[0].

[0] http://json-schema.org/

Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by sqs »

michaelmior wrote: post #6
sqs wrote: post #2

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/ ). Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

For a tool which is all about being language agnostic, I'm curious why you went with Go struct definitions to define the formats instead of something like JSON Schema[0]. [0] http://json-schema.org/

Simplicity and lack of time. :) We'd love to move to something more language-agnostic for the schema definitions. If you're interested, we'd definitely accept a patch.

Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by joshschreuder »

sqs wrote: post #2

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/ ). Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

Looks really awesome! Love the Github and Sublime plugins.

Unfortunately I can't try it out as there doesn't seem to be a Windows version. Any plans for one?

Re: Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

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Post by sqs »

adamnemecek wrote: post #5
sqs wrote: post #2

Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the original creators. It's still alpha, so there will be bugs. But it can do some pretty cool and useful stuff already in your editor (and it powers https://sourcegraph.com/ ). Anyone have feedback about how we're explaining the problem and solution, and the first-run experience of using the editor plugins and the "src" tool? We would LOVE to hear it so we can fix/improve it.

Did you guys consider hooking this up with llvm since it provides call graph generation for the supported languages? If so what was the conclusion? If not I might look into it, no promises though.

We haven't looked at llvm yet. None of the tools for the existing languages we've targeted so far (Python, JavaScript, Go, and Ruby) had llvm-based tools that we chose to use. It would be AWESOME to hook it up to llvm. We'll help however we can, if you are interested. I'm sqs@sourcegraph.com.
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