Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library (opens in new tab)

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/

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?

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.

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?

Awesome project! Any timeline on vim support?

Yeah, truly interactive editing and incremental updates are something that srclib doesn't handle right now. We have some plans/prototypes around using presentation compilers, lenient parsers, and a persistent "src" process to provide the same kind of interactive editing support that IDEs have, but there's nothing in srclib or any of the language analysis toolchains yet. We are /pretty/ sure it'll be possible to get the kind of responsiveness you'd want.

If you have time to take a look at how we've implemented the existing toolchains and architecture, it'd be awesome if you wrote down any suggestions you have for how we could implement interactive code assist.

Just serialize the continuation to the database and everyone can fork() the state language analyzer with their own queries.

Thanks for the kind words! Please send feedback/complaints.

Re: the name "srclib", I was on the phone with our domain registrar when we got srclib.org/com, and the rep referred to it as "Sr. Clib" (as in "Señor Clib"). So that's stuck in our heads now. :)

I wasn't able to find the source code for some of IntelliJ's dynamic language support, like Python and Ruby. If it is indeed open source, I would love to check it out.

IntelliJ is awesome. We're just trying to make something that isn't coupled to a specific editor and is super non-monolithic. Our goal is for you to be able to run a single command ("src") in a directory, or have your editor plugin (or other kind of tool) invoke something like "src api describe --file FILE --start-byte N", to tap into a fully analyzed database of the source code in a package.

Thanks for posting this.

Just fixed the download links.

What do you think of the new installation section on the homepage, at https://srclib.org/#install?

Yeah, pfff seems very cool. It seems that pfff has written parsers and type inferencers for a variety of languages in OCaml. That is an impressive achievement.

For srclib, we are way lazier. We try to use existing libraries (written in the languages they target) for parsing, type checking/inference, dependency resolution, etc. We hope that makes it easier for JavaScript hackers to hack on srclib's JavaScript support, Python hackers to work on srclib's Python support, etc.