Glean
System for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code. (by facebookincubator)
zoekt
Fast trigram based code search (by google)
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| Glean | zoekt | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 5 | |
| 892 | 1,662 | |
| 1.1% | 1.0% | |
| 9.8 | 3.4 | |
| 4 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Hack | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Glean
Posts with mentions or reviews of Glean.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-17.
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Is Meta decommissioning Sigma?
Even if it is true (which is an unsubstantiated gossip at the moment), Sigma is not the only Haskell project at Facebook. See https://github.com/facebookincubator/Glean for another example.
- Glean – System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code
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Codebase as Database: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog
Meta uses something very much like this in production. It’s open sourced at https://glean.software/
- Knows/Knows anyone that understands how to build a code indexer ala Intellisense
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11 Companies That Use Haskell in Production
Glean, a system for collecting and working with facts about source code.
- Facebook open sources Glean, its scalable code search and query engine
- Facebook Is Down
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Is there a tool that would allow me to query (structured search) a codebase?
Glean was recently open sourced, it might fit your needs - https://glean.software/
zoekt
Posts with mentions or reviews of zoekt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-08.
- Zoekt – Fast trigram based code search
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Improving GitHub Code Search
For the grepping aspect, https://github.com/google/zoekt is a powerful one-stop-shop. For the navigating, I don't know. SourceGraph maybe, but the linking is somewhat heuristic I assume, not compilation-graph powered. But maybe that changes or depends per language.
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Facebook open sources Glean, its scalable code search and query engine
The latest index/search engine is https://github.com/google/zoekt
- A 5x reduction in RAM usage
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Glean and zoekt you can also consider the following projects:
livegrep - Interactively grep source code. Source for http://livegrep.com/
codesearch - Fast, indexed regexp search over large file trees
opengrok - OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java
semantic-source - Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
hoogle - Haskell API search engine
Glean - System for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code.
roaring-rs - A better compressed bitset in Rust
chrono - Date and time library for Rust
React - The library for web and native user interfaces.
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