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Good piece, tho not new ideas. Ton of references, two recent that immediately come to mind https://github.com/src-d/guide https://github.com/src-d/guide https:
by jonahbenton 6y ago
Good piece, tho not new ideas. Ton of references, two recent that immediately come to mind
https://github.com/src-d/guide https://github.com/src-d/guide
https://github.com/Datomic/codeq https://github.com/Datomic/codeq
But work here goes back at least to the 1970s.
- feifan 6y agoThe future's already here, just not evenly distributed :) I wrote this in part to surface these ideas to new people!
- wiz21c 6y agoI'm pretty sure Eclipse or IntelliJ build a meaningful index of my code base... What about that ?
- jonahbenton 6y agoThey do but those aren't made available to you like a database, just through their search tool and indirectly through their contextual lookups. See also tools that build databases from code history, like https://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/crimescene/codeascrimescene.htm https://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/crimescene/codeascrime...