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Sourcegraph: A free code search tool for open source developers (Opensource.com)

Posted Apr 22, 2015 20:38 UTC (Wed) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
In reply to: Sourcegraph: A free code search tool for open source developers (Opensource.com) by dskoll
Parent article: Sourcegraph: A free code search tool for open source developers (Opensource.com)

> "C is not supported." I guess that explains the empty strchr result.

From https://sourcegraph.com/

"Supports 6 languages: Java, Go, Python, JavaScript (beta), Ruby (beta), Haskell (beta) … and others srclib supports." (But AFAICS srclib currently doesn't support any other).

No C++ I can maybe understand, but no C? Seems a bit ... limited.

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Sourcegraph: A free code search tool for open source developers (Opensource.com)

Posted Apr 22, 2015 20:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Also no Perl. I know Perl is a horror to parse and isn't cool any more, but, sheesh, it's far more widely used than *Haskell*. I don't know what their choice of languages to index is determined by, but it clearly isn't volume of available code (or, to be frank, utility).

Sourcegraph: A free code search tool for open source developers (Opensource.com)

Posted Apr 22, 2015 20:54 UTC (Wed) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164) [Link] (1 responses)

> Also no Perl.

I *knew* there was an important language I was forgetting about. Perl, yes, of course. My apologies to the Perl community :)

Sourcegraph: A free code search tool for open source developers (Opensource.com)

Posted Apr 22, 2015 23:15 UTC (Wed) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287) [Link]

"Forgetting about Perl..." Hey - maybe this will become a trend!