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Code search is a great tool! It really helps with productivity! But sometimes it is very easy to go down the rabbit hole. I wonder if they can open source code

by kediz 7y ago

Code search is a great tool! It really helps with productivity! But sometimes it is very easy to go down the rabbit hole. I wonder if they can open source code search itself.

Eridrus 7y ago
I don't know the state of it, but Kythe is open source: https://kythe.io/ https://kythe.io/ But in reality you probably want something more like SourceGraph which packages everything up nicely so that you don't need to worry about it, or something more specialized.
- thedance 7y ago
  Bringing up kythe from scratch is very daunting. First thing I did when I left google, of course, but still really hard.
  - __float 7y ago
    What did you use for a UI?
    - thedance 7y ago
      That's one of the main problems. I started with the demo frontend that comes in the box and just hacked on that. I'm no UI developer by any stretch.
    - dmoy 7y ago
      Try TreeTide
hanwenn 7y ago
cs.opensource.google runs on Google's search infrastructure, so it's unlikely to be open sourced. https://github.com/google/zoekt https://github.com/google/zoekt is open source, but lacks cross-referencing, and has a more spartan UI.