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Jump to definition is available on GitHub (Beta)

by talal7860 on 7/3/19, 8:50 PM with 8 comments

by tanin on 7/4/19, 2:30 AM
Shameless plug: I'm building lilit.dev, which is a "true" Java code intelligence on browser (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20228115).
It's true in the sense that the features like jump-to-definition/find-usage are accurate. This is especially important around overloaded methods and parameterized types.
A few days back, we recently launched parameter hints (blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20320481) and type info (tweet: https://twitter.com/tanin/status/1145502393708081152).
We're looking for private beta users. Please let us know if anyone is interested :)

by guessmyname on 7/3/19, 11:54 PM

EDIT: dupe — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109840

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I wonder why this feature hasn’t attracted much attention:

    21  days ago |  1 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20170908
    20  days ago |  4 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174715
    19  days ago |  2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20183253
    18  days ago |  2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20193151
    15  days ago |  2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20216782
    14  days ago |  2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227589
     2  days ago |  1 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20327128
     3 hours ago | 12 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348641

We will see again when it is out of beta.

by Existenceblinks on 7/4/19, 4:44 AM
Not sure if it's only me. I have not ever used jump-to-definition feature on my editor. 95% of the time I just use search. But in case of Github web, it makes sense because their search feature isn't on par with local text editors.
by nosefrog on 7/4/19, 1:09 AM
Very cool! I wonder why they wrote their own source code analyzer instead of building off of the language servers that already exist: https://langserver.org/