Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK

Why HN readers recommended it

HN refers to it as the main public description of Google's internal code analysis tooling, and as a precursor of ideas like LSP.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stanford Online

Topic

code analysis tooling

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• 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.

• I wouldn't want to use the term "best" because there are so many good ones in various areas, but this talk by Steve Yegge was both entertaining and informative. Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK (large scale source code analysis) [VIDEO]

• 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 …