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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16701830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16701830 How exciting! Jane Street developed an intern
by chmaynard 6y ago
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16701830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16701830
How exciting! Jane Street developed an internal tool to augment the GitHub UI. Unfortunately, the code is proprietary, the features and UI are tailored to their own requirements, and the tool is not available in any form to the general public. So what's the purpose of this blog post?
- thedufer 6y agoYour question is answered quite directly in the post: > The goal of this post, then, is just to show off what the result looks like – to show you what kind of workflow is possible – in the hope that it inspires similar tools in other ecosystems. Also, it is not built on GitHub, it is built on an internal code review system (and it is not even built on git, it is backed by hg instead) so it likely wouldn't be useful to anyone to open-source it.
- chmaynard 6y ago> Your question is answered quite directly in the post You're right, I didn't read the post carefully. Thanks for the clarification. > it likely wouldn't be useful to anyone to open-source it All source code is potentially useful to someone. I doubt if open-sourcing Feature Explorer would reveal any of Jane Street's trade secrets. Why not just do it?