Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderJetbrain IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ) have structural search which is basically a query language for code: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re... I know there's more to just queriability in the post, but I thought this should've been mentioned when discussing what existing IDEs can offer.
The biggest challenge with incrementality in the IDE (I'm not even talking about incremental parsing or whatever) is you're subject to the whims of a given language's build system and how it behaves on multi-million LoC codebases. With sufficient human suffering thrown at the problem, you can approximate decent incrementality, but it ain't easy. It's not written about anywhere, but there is a long and storied history of trying different takes on "IDE Incrementality" for the Visual Studio IDE, all…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 535
- Total comments
- 100
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-17 | Turning the IDE Inside Out with DatalogFirst breakout · Best thread | arjunnarayan | 275 | 61 |
| 2020-07-18 | Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog | jrvarela56 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-10-04 | Codebase as Database: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog (2020)Latest 20+ point return | rohitpaulk | 258 | 39 |