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I hope this and SCIP becomes a standard and we have more programming languages emitting symbols in SCIP format.

I thought SCIP got promoted into https://lsif.dev/ but chasing the https://github.com/sourcegraph/lsif-java link resolves to https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip-java so maybe I had the evolution relationship backward. Anyway, I'm thankful at least that code is still Apache 2

https://github.com/topics/lsif may interest this audience, too, since the scip topic tag seems to clash with something else

Also, I learned last night that GitLab embraces LSIF, too https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/stages.html#aut...

SCIP is an evolution of LSIF, basically: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/announcing-scip

My, and my friends experiences with SCIP indexers built by Sourcegraph have been less than stellar. They are buggy and sparsely maintained

Hello! I am Head of Engineering at Sourcegraph. I'd love to get feedback on which SCIP indexers you've had issues with, and, if you have the time, feedback on what sort of problems you've had with them. Thank you so much!

Hey guys, it's been over two months since I've been in the weeds with SCIP so I'm not going to be able to write very detailed issues, most of my experiences were with scip python and some in typescript.

1. roles incorrectly assigned to symbol occurences

2. symbols missing - this is a big one. I've seen many instances of symbols being included in "relationships" array that were not included in "symbols" array for the document, and vice versa. Plus "definition" occurrences have been inconsistent/confusing - only some symbols have those, and they don't always match where the thing is actually defined (file/position), and sometimes a definition occurrence has no counterpart in symbols array

3. the treatment of external packages have been inconsistent, they sometimes get picked up as internal definitions and sometimes not

I think SCIP is a great idea and I'd explore using it again if it got better. But I see that there are issues staying in the backlog for 6+ months which makes it seem from the outside like Sourcegraph is not prioritizing further development of scip

Thanks for the details. I appreciate you taking the time to give the feedback. We will use this to help to improve SCIP and the indexers.

I work at Sourcegraph and would love to learn more.

1. Which SCIP indexers did you having issues with?

2. What issues did you hit (can you share details or link to GitHub issues filed?)

Thanks!

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