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Is there any UIs for this available openly? Or for glass? I am a former Googler and I know how awesome this kind of tooling is and it’s so hard to achieve with OSS. I would love open source code search. This seems very close but there is no UI layer (and it seems like meta uses this for code review and for IDEs) but a basic UI would be a good start

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Some people use the Glass command line client to integrate with Emacs/Vim/VSCode. Internally we have an LSP server that queries Glass, but it's not open source and some work would be needed to extract it. The only non trivial thing it does is position mapping to account for local changes.

The integrations for code review and symbol search are both built for internal tools and not amenable to open sourcing.

FWIW I agree that the lack of open source integrations are the main barrier for external adoption

Yeah understood that the internal meta stuff would be too tied up with internal infra to be OSS, it’s the same with a lot of Google’s tooling here.

I do wish there was a startup here. There is sourcegraph, which has ok code search (github has come a long way, but without indexing and understanding the build you can’t do it justice). There are also cool code review startups like Graphite, but they don’t work together. I remember how powerful it was to review a change then go use an xref to see how a function is used that is untouched in a code review, so does not show in the diff, which requires checking out the changes locally in OSS land and context switching to leave comments.

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