bloop VS Metals

Compare bloop vs Metals and see what are their differences.

bloop

bloop is a fast code search engine written in Rust. (by BloopAI)

Metals

Scala language server with rich IDE features 🚀 (by scalameta)
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bloop Metals
29 18
8,474 2,013
2.4% 1.4%
9.6 9.8
15 days ago 7 days ago
Rust Scala
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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bloop

Posts with mentions or reviews of bloop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • Any other C# people out there? Would love some feedback on my Blazor ChatGPT copy
    2 projects | /r/LocalLLaMA | 7 Dec 2023
    Thanks! Bloop really helped with the documentation! they index your code base and uses RAG locally to talk against it. It works shockingly well.
  • Reviewing AI Code Search Tools
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Sep 2023
    In this blog post, I’ll be comparing 3 distinct AI-first code search tools I recently came across: Cody (developed by late-stage startup, Sourcegraph), SeaGOAT (an open-source project that was trending on HN last week), and Bloop (an early-stage YC startup). I’ll be evaluating them along the dimensions of user-friendliness as well as their accuracy.
  • Using Helium To Scrape Reedsy.com
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2023
    If you're confused about any of the code snippets above, you can check out bloop.ai and phind.com (along with its VSCode extension) to answer any of your questions about the repository, noting that both have free plans.
  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jul 2023
    bloop (YC S21) | Rust AI Engineer | Onsite | London, UK

    We're a YC + tier-1 VC backed startup, working on a AI chat assistant for software developers that can answer questions about any large codebase.

    About you: you hack around with GPT on the weekend, maybe you even fine-tune some of these new open source models. But you're also a solid programmer, capable of not just prototyping a nice demo but also shipping performant code that can scale. You're probably quite good at what you do, maybe you were top of your class, or maybe you rose the ranks to your comfortable management role, but yearn for the days of writing code, redbull and deploying on a Friday.

    We're a small team, looking for one individual to join us in London, in-person at least 3 days per week.

    Please reach out to me at join [at] bloop [dot] ai with "HN AI Engineer" in the subject line and a note about why this is exciting and a link to your portfolio or linkedin/resume.

    P.S. Our stack is Rust, so it's likely the role will go to a candidate with Rust experience but if you think you have something to offer that compensates for lack of Rust we should chat anyway!

    https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop

  • Any GUI tools to explore objects?
    2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 25 Jun 2023
    Bro let me turn your life inside out: https://bloop.ai
  • Tantivy 0.20 is released: Schemaless column store, Schemaless aggregations, Phrase prefix queries, Percentiles, and more...
    4 projects | /r/rust | 20 Jun 2023
    Another example is Bloop, it is a code search engine built on top of tantivy and qdrant.
  • 12-Jun-2023
    3 projects | /r/dailyainews | 12 Jun 2023
    Bloop is a developer assistant that uses GPT-4 to answer questions about your codebase (https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop)
  • Show HN: Bloop – Answer questions about your code with an LLM agent
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    Exactly, you can see the prompt in this file [0]. I'm not sure how LangChain arrived at their default prompts, but you'll almost certainly want to write your own for performance reasons if you put something into production.

    [0] https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop/blob/main/server/bleep/src/...

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
  • Six tips for better coding with ChatGPT
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2023
    A lot of the core arguments of the article around trust and safety sound very relevant to the problem I'm trying to solve [0] which is codebase search.

    Many orgs have a big enough codebase that they can improve productivity with existing patterns.

    [0] https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop

Metals

Posts with mentions or reviews of Metals. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
  • Reconnecting with Scala. What's new?
    7 projects | /r/scala | 24 May 2023
    Links: - https://dotty.epfl.ch/ - https://scala-native.org/en/stable/ - https://www.scala-js.org/ - https://typelevel.org/ - https://zio.dev/ - https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/pull/3120 - https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16517 - https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/experimental/index.html - https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/ - https://scalameta.org/metals/ - https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/guides/migration/compatibility-intro.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2023/04/18/faster-scalajs-development-with-frontend-tooling.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2022/08/17/long-term-compatibility-plans.html
  • Tmux, NeoVim, etc. to write pure Kotlin code?
    2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 30 Apr 2023
    You might want to look at Scala, they have proper LSP support with metals which means you can write your code in vscode, neovim, emacs, or even fleet (the new jetbrains text editor).
  • New plugin to support LSP file operations
    6 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Jan 2023
    Please write in the comments if you know of any language servers I should test it with. Currently I tested only metals and rust-analyzer.
  • Why are all the guides on using LSP functionality full of bloat?
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 26 Dec 2022
    If you are using nvim-lspconfig you can pass the settings as a Lua table to the setup function. For example, here are may metals settings:
  • Type-Signature.com
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2022
  • What is the one thing you need everyday to make your job easier?
    2 projects | /r/AskMen | 16 Oct 2022
    Bazel support in Metals. I didn't spend all that time figuring out and adjusting Emacs/Spacemacs and making my workflow (almost) mouse-free just to scrap my config and switch to IDEA's rodent infested ways.
  • Scala 2.13.9 is here
    3 projects | /r/scala | 21 Sep 2022
    There is one small issue involving code completion returning inappropriate completions in some cases; https://github.com/scalameta/metals/pull/4414 will fix it, once it's included in a release. Perhaps that's the PR you saw?
  • Scala Isn't Fun Anymore
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
    It is, by quite a bit.

    While the "Scala IDE" project is dead for all practical purposes, IntelliJ IDEA's Scala plugin is actually pretty amazing. There's also a VisualStudio plugin that does pretty much the same and is advancing by leaps and bounds. There are also interconnecting projects that provide i.e. language server or build server that are reused by other projects. It's pretty modular. Metals (https://scalameta.org/metals/) is amazing.

    In general the language has become a wee bit faster to build, there was good progress with build times during the 2.12/2.13 cycles.

    With Scala3 the language got a bit simpler; concepts that were implemented explicitly using (hehe) implicits got their own keywords and a lot of the opinionated boilercode that cause a lot of debates is now generated during complication and hidden. A lot of "standardization" has occurred.

  • A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022
  • What is your favorite programming language?
    9 projects | /r/archlinux | 20 Dec 2021
    Have a look at https://scalameta.org/metals/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bloop and Metals you can also consider the following projects:

intellij-plugins - Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform

Jupyter Scala - A Scala kernel for Jupyter

sbt - sbt, the interactive build tool

bloop - Bloop is a build server and CLI tool to compile, test and run Scala fast from any editor or build tool.

Scalastyle - scalastyle

dotty - The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.

intellij-scala-bundle - IntelliJ Scala Bundle - get started with Scala in a single click!

scalajs-benchmark - Benchmarks: write in Scala or JS, run in your browser. Live demo:

scala - Scala 2 compiler and standard library. Bugs at https://github.com/scala/bug; Scala 3 at https://github.com/scala/scala3

scala-trace-debug - Macro based print debugging. Locates log statements in your IDE.

Wartremover - Flexible Scala code linting tool

nvim-metals - A Metals plugin for Neovim