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When I investigated sg for former gig I found out that bazel was still not supported. How does uber uses it for their monorepo in that case?

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Bazel support in what sense? We have basic code nav across every major language, select precise indexers known to work with Bazel (with some degree of work), and we have improved code nav for Bazel files themselves (https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/37858), too. Search, of course, works across all languages. Happy to chat more about supporting your specific build environment: https://discord.gg/mBVP4JVBcj

Not starlark files but code intel in a Go/C++/Java monorepo managed using Bazel. There’s an open ticket suggesting it’s not supported yet?

https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/2982

Hmm, I think we might need to update that ticket.

Here's some docs on Bazel support for Java/Scala precise code nav: https://sourcegraph.github.io/scip-java/docs/getting-started.... Any languages you're looking for in particular?

Go (rules_go) and C++ primarily

For C++, we do support Bazel via compile_commands.json; we have customers who have used it successfully. Depending on the editor you're using, you probably need to get Bazel to generate a compile_commands.json anyways.

So core code navigation functionality ought to work. There are some issues with different language features (macros, newer C++17 and C++20 features), as well as robustness (crashes on indexing certain code) but we're looking into bringing C++ support up to par with other languages.

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