[pseudosudoer]

Ideally this would be a standalone app (perhaps ported using electron) that I could run locally, and import codebases directly. Sourcegraph was on the right track, but eventually fizzled out unfortunately.

I would love to use a tool like this to navigate the unknown on rails!

[blcArmadillo]

By chance did you mean Sourcetrail [1] instead of Sourcegraph? Old demo video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cfu6f0uyzc8?si=oNS9KKlbgEk_Ct0p.

[1] https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

[pseudosudoer]

Yes you're right, my mistake!

[sqs]

Sourcegraph CEO here. We stopped making a standalone Electron app (which was an experiment) and instead remained focused on our web app and editor extensions. You can use Cody in your editor with no server needed. We didn’t fizzle out. :)

[pst723]

Oh hi there! Love what Sourcegraph is doing.

[pseudosudoer]

I confused Sourcetrail and SourceGraph, didn't mean to spread misinformation on your product!

[pst723]

That is definitely an option. However what you get from a hosted service is that we do the indexing for you. That can take a significant amount of time for a huge codebase.

[jijijijij]

Love the idea, but isn't the "indexing" part of many editors and language servers already? Ctags and stuff? Never got the impression that to be a huge problem on modern hardware.

I doubt, there will be much demand for throwing large non-public code bases into third party services... However, I can totally see how this would be a hit as a FOSS project.

[sdesol]

I've built a code search engine in the past so I know how painful debugging long indexing jobs can be and I would certainly be reluctant to support private repos until I know I can index thousands if not tens of thousands of open source repos with no issues.

[pst723]

That's more or less the plan. We want to prove our concept with free software repos first.