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by tptacek 2541 days ago
Github also recently open-sourced their Haskell-based Semantic, which annotates and cross-references a whole bunch of languages (all the languages any of our clients use), and is built on tree-sitter, so there's, like, several levels of prior art available here.
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Sir_Cmpwn 2541 days ago
Another issue with Semantic that makes me less thrilled about using it here: say it doesn't support programming langauge $x, and you don't know or want to use Haskell, but you do know and want to use language $x. To add it to GitHub, you have to learn Haskell, which is no small mountain to climb. To add it to SourceHut, you can just leverage $x's existing tools.

But, plugging Semantic into SourceHut should be totally possible with some mild massaging of the output JSON.

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iso-8859-1 2541 days ago
Semantic is in Haskell, but since it doesn't use GHC, it cannot handle Haskell well (can't e.g. resolve type classes).

If I wanted good code reviewing with Haskell, I figure it would be best to translate HIE files (https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190626-HIEFiles.html) to LSIF (https://github.com/mpickering/hie-lsif), which is supported in VSCode. Because of the limitations of only parsing, GitHub alone will not be as powerful. If I then just make an LSIF to SourceHut converter, SourceHut will have better annotations than GitHub...

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