rtags VS dxr

Compare rtags vs dxr and see what are their differences.

rtags

A client/server indexer for c/c++/objc[++] with integration for Emacs based on clang. (by Andersbakken)

dxr

DEPRECATED - Powerful search for large codebases (by mozilla)
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rtags dxr
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4.5 0.1
20 days ago over 2 years ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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rtags

Posts with mentions or reviews of rtags. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-07.
  • How to combine rtags and vertico
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Apr 2023
    I decided to install cmake-ide. It seems that rtags came along with the former. Fine, but I also decided to use the vertico package. It also seems that rtags has a support for Helm, but from what I understand, Helm and and Vertico fall under the same category of packages and therefore I can only have one of them.
  • Modern alternate to ctags/etags?
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Jan 2022
    An alternative to LSP is rtags. I found this is often a lot faster than LSP, with any server.
  • External Clang Examples
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2021
    >"List of projects and tools

    https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags/

    "RTags is a client/server application that indexes c/c++ code and keeps a persistent in-memory database of references, symbolnames, completions etc."

    https://rprichard.github.com/sourceweb/

    "A C/C++ source code indexer and navigator"

    https://github.com/etaoins/qconnectlint

    "qconnectlint is a Clang tool for statically verifying the consistency of signal and slot connections made with Qt's QObject::connect."

    https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser

dxr

Posts with mentions or reviews of dxr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-24.
  • Lmgrep: Lucene-based grep-like utility
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2021
    There is DXR from Mozilla but I'm not sure how generalised it is.

    https://github.com/mozilla/dxr

    There is also Sourcegraph.

  • External Clang Examples
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2021
    "The Woboq Code Browser is a web-based code browser for C/C++ projects. Check out https://code.woboq.org/ for an example!"

    https://github.com/mozilla/dxr

    "DXR is a source code cross-reference tool that uses static analysis data collected by instrumented compilers."

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rtags and dxr you can also consider the following projects:

ccls - C/C++/ObjC language server supporting cross references, hierarchies, completion and semantic highlighting

cldoc - clang based documentation generator for C and C++

clangd - clangd language server

ToyClangPlugin - Playing with Clang plugin system

language-server-protocol - Defines a common protocol for language servers.

llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

lucene-grep - Grep-like utility based on Lucene Monitor compiled with GraalVM native-image