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by soonnow 1748 days ago
Does that mean you are using the shell or how is it used to enable these functionalities?
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Most clients hit the Glean server via the network (thrift/JSON) and then mostly via language bindings to the Glean query language, Angle. The shell is more for debugging/exploration.

Imagine an IDE plugin that queries Glean over the network for symbol information about the current file, then shows that on hover. That sort of thing.

Alright gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.