CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail on Hacker News

…code, especially for codebases with hundreds of thousands or like above a million SLoC. Example: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/blob/master/doc... Another example: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/blob/master/doc..…

comment by KronisLV · 2025-10-12 · in Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

…dependency or call graphs, a bit like what SourceTrail did back in the day, before going bust: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

comment by KronisLV · 2025-09-25 · in The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review

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Sourcetrail: Free and Open-Source Interactive Source Explorer

story by CodeTrailblazer · 2024-08-07 · 6 comments

This is pretty cool! Reminds me of the now defunct SourceTrail tool: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail Actually, seeing lines between the code and where you opened it from would most likely be useful!

comment by KronisLV · 2024-07-25 · in Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

…there is little activity in any of the forks, without anyone necessarily spearheading the effort: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/forks?include=a...

comment by KronisLV · 2024-07-15 · in We need visual programming. No, not like that

…of Sourcegraph? Old demo video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cfu6f0uyzc8?si=oNS9KKlbgEk_Ct0p . [1] https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

comment by blcArmadillo · 2024-05-07 · in An infinite canvas for code exploration

…significantly improved the understanding and legibility of code. The code is in an archived state ( https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail ). Searching for the software on Google shows some screenshots.

comment by sprine · 2024-02-24 · in Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?

…make large scale code visualization in a similar way to how SourceTrail does it more feasible: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

comment by lurker137 · 2023-06-10 · in Ask HN: What would an IDE built for the Apple Vision Pro look like?

Sourcetrail actually tried to do that for a select few languages https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail Sadly, they retired the entire project a while back.

comment by KronisLV · 2022-08-18 · in Programming breakthroughs we need

see: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail , even tho the project is marked archived, it's pretty solid, i personally still use a 2019 release. i also have a self hosted instance of this : https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/sour…

comment by foobarandlmj · 2022-07-30 · in Ask HN: Is there a tool you use just for reading code?

…There also used to be SourceTrail, though sadly the project is now retired: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail For databases, you can also use external tools like DbVis: https://www.dbvis.com/features/ There are also a few t

comment by KronisLV · 2022-05-31 · in Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?

…zero-knowledge, quicker there on. - Sourcetrail (GUI/Linux/Windows, closed-net-capable, archived) - https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail - SourceInsight (repo/web-server/closed-net) https://www.sourceinsight.com/ - OpenGrok (web…

comment by egberts1 · 2022-03-27 · in Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?

The now retired SourceTrail is still a pretty good tool, it supports C++, Java and Python https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

comment by madduci · 2022-02-12 · in Ask HN: How to visualize the dependency graphs of my codebase?

https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail Helped me improve my understanding of last codebase and their design

comment by disdi · 2022-02-04 · in Ask HN: Favorite product that got shut down?

https://sourcegraph.com/search ? I always get it confused with self-hosted https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail but I think Sourcetrail just shut down.

comment by password4321 · 2021-10-07 · in Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?

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Continuing Sourcetrail / Sourcetrail End of Life (EOL)

story by MakisH · 2021-10-01 · 0 comments

Link won't load for me but seems like it's talking about https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail .

comment by eatonphil · 2021-09-24 · in Discontinue Sourcetrail

I'm with you on this one. I'd actually suggest https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail could be extended to do this, though I haven't found the time yet for my own codebases. For example https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailPyth…

comment by lstamour · 2021-02-17 · in The Database Inside Your Codebase

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story by yagizdegirmenci · 2021-02-14 · 23 comments

…modify it... with everything you need neatly linked and annotated... https://www.sourcetrail.com/ https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail https://www.patreon.com/sourcetrail/posts For more on my thoughts of “understanding code…

comment by lstamour · 2020-04-26 · in Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not

And binary builds already available in releases section[0] [0] https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/releases

comment by app4soft · 2019-11-19 · in Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

…is also caused by lots of downloads. You can get the latest Sourcetrail 2019.4 now also from GitHub https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/releases

comment by egraether · 2019-11-19 · in Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

It makes more sense to integrate [1] with GitHub Semantic [2] library instead. [1] https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/issues/750 [2] https://github.com/github/semantic

comment by xvilka · 2019-11-19 · in Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

…do via LSP, though the servers themselves would be great as an educational tool on what’s required. https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/issues/685#issu... If indexers were to be maintained separately, the only thought I have is…

comment by lstamour · 2019-11-19 · in Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

…connection issues due to the HN hug-of-death. In the meantime here's their Github repo: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

comment by McKayDavis · 2019-11-18 · in Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

…to resolve symbol names. We hope we can improve this. The crash on closing was already reported: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailBugTracker/issue... I opened another issue to not inform about indexing when only renaming source…

comment by egraether · 2019-05-26 · in Show HN: Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Supports Python

No, not yet. There is a feature request: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailBugTracker/issue...

comment by egraether · 2017-06-23 · in Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

Nevertheless I opened a feature request to track demand: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailBugTracker/issue...

comment by egraether · 2017-06-22 · in Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code