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Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK

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What it is

Steve Yegge's Stanford seminar on GROK, Google's internal large-scale, cross-language source code analysis system. It covers how the system helps with code search and understanding across Google's huge codebase.

Why Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “If we have anything half that good in the wider programming community in twenty years time, I will be very surprised.”

    Yegge describes the Grok system he built at Google.

    dunk010, 2018-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?”

  2. “this talk by Steve Yegge was both entertaining and informative”

    Entertaining, informative talk on large-scale source code analysis.

    michaelwww, 2013-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?”

  3. “The internal beast sounds kind of awesome.”

    Talk on Google's internal code search and code comprehension.

    SwellJoe, 2016-07 · Recommendation · in “Software Heritage”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: steve yegge, grok, google, code search, static analysis, language tooling

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