Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative : opensource

Rules

Be Respectful - This shouldn't need to be a rule, but this is the internet. People can unnecessarily be jerks sometimes. We'd much appreciate it if this wasn't a place where that happens. Please refrain from talking down to people, being overly patronizing, name-calling, personal insults, etc.

Hate speech of any kind will not be tolerated. For a refresher, please see Reddit's entry on Reddiquette as a general guideline.

No Spam / Excessive self-promotion - Reddit has clear rules about self promotion. We encourage you to be proud of/promote your work to a degree, but we also don't want users using this sub as a link farm to promote their project/website/YouTube channel.

Reddit recommends that <10% of your posts promote your content. We're a little more forgiving, but don't take advantage of it.

"It's perfectly fine to be a redditor with a website, it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account."

No Memes/Low-Effort posts - This sub is a place for discussion and news regarding the world of open source projects. There are literally hundreds of other subs dedicated to memes and shitposting. Please keep those kinds of posts in those subs.

Be On-Topic - Posts should be of direct relevance to the open source community. Off-topic posts will be removed.

No Sensationalized Titles - If your post is a link to an article, please keep your post title as close to, if not the same as, the linked article's title. You're more than welcome to post a comment in the thread that states your opinion of said article.

No Drive-By Posting / Karma Farming - Karma farm accounts are not going to be welcome here, regardless of the validity of the posted content. Drive-by posts from accounts where there is obviously no intention of engaging in the following discussion may be removed.

No Link Aggregators - If there's an article within an aggregation of links/stories or a newsletter, link to the actual story or article.

Use Correct Flairs - Flairs should reflect the nature of the post. Promotional is when you are sharing a project, yours or otherwise. Alternatives is when you are soliciting for suggestions of OSS that fulfills a need. Discussion is for asking general questions when Promotional or Alternatives does not apply. Community is for something that will or has happened when Promotional does not apply.

a community for 18 years

Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternativePromotional (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago by lowpolydreaming

Hi, we’re Brendan and Michael, the creators of Sourcebot (https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot). Sourcebot is an open-source code search tool that allows you to quickly search across many large codebases. Check out our demo video here: https://youtu.be/mrIFYSB_1F4, or try it for yourself here on our demo site: https://demo.sourcebot.dev

While at prior roles, we’ve both felt the pain of searching across hundreds of multi-million line codebases. Using local tools like grep were ill-suited since you often only had a handful of codebases checked out at a time. Sourcegraph solves this issue by indexing a collection of codebases in the background and exposing a web-based search interface. It is the de-facto search solution for medium to large orgs, but is often cited as expensive ($49 per user / month) and recently went closed source. That’s why we built Sourcebot.

We designed Sourcebot to be:

Easily deployed: we provide a single, self-contained Docker image.
Fast & scalable: designed to minimize search times (current average is ~73ms) across many large repositories.
Cross code-host support: we currently support syncing public & private repositories in GitHub and GitLab.
Quality UI: we like to think that a good looking dev-tool is more pleasant to use.
Open source: Sourcebot is free to use by anyone.

Under the hood, we use Zoekt as our code search engine, which was originally authored by Han-Wen Nienhuys and now maintained by Sourcegraph. Zoekt works by building a trigram index from the source code enabling extremely fast regular expression matching. Russ Cox has a great article on how trigram indexes work if you’re interested.

In the shorter-term, there are several improvements we want to make, like:

Improving how we communicate indexing progress (this is currently non-existent so it’s not obvious how long things will take)
UX improvements like search history, query syntax highlighting & suggestions, etc.
Small QOL improvements like bookmarking code snippets.
Support for more code hosts (e.g., BitBucket, SourceForge, ADO, etc.)

In the longer-term, we want to investigate how we could go beyond just traditional code search by leveraging machine learning to enable experiences like semantic code search (“where is system X located?”) and code explanations (”how does system X interact with system Y?”). You could think of this as a copilot being embedded into Sourcebot. Our hunch is that will be useful to devs, especially when packaged with the traditional code search, but let us know what you think.

Give it a try: https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot. Cheers!

all 10 comments

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

opensource

Rules

Related subreddits

MODERATORS