Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK

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dunk010 · 2018-10 · Strong recommendation

Steve Yegge talking about the system he built at Google, called Grok: [VIDEO] . If we have anything half that good in the wider programming community in twenty years time, I will be very surprised.

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dunk010 · 2024-02 · Recommendation

LSP is basically an open(-ish) source implementation of Google’s internal tool called Grok. Grok was made by Steve Yegge, a formerly famous tech blogger. Steve Yegge uses emacs, and half his motivation was to equalise editors by moving the language processing elements to an external place that’s shareable by all. He has a great talk on it: [VIDEO] . So it’s, like, not an accident that emacs can leverage this :-D. Though I never see anyone giving him credit.

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SwellJoe · 2016-07 · Recommendation

Yes, and they've open sourced part of that here (at least, I think it is related, and is also called "Code Search"): [LINK] But, their public code search was not the same as the internal thing, as far as I know. The internal beast sounds kind of awesome. Here's his talk about it from a few years ago: [VIDEO] I think the really useful thing (beyond a mere search engine that has indexed a lot of source code) is the comprehension of the "guzzintas" and "guzzouttas" of the code, more than merely a naive word search; i.e. knowing how pieces interact, so you can search for functions that work with a particular kind of object, for example, or objects that have the same properties, or code that interacts with the same API you're working with, whatever.

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