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Google That Code: How Sourcegraph Simplifies Development

We often think that modern computing is divided between code and data. Our ability to manage https://thenewstack.io/guido-van-rossum-on-types-speed-and-the-future-of-python/ is limited by our understanding of them, and it is time for us to use the tools built for big data and apply them to the era of big code.

Understanding different people’s opinions and styles of code can be overwhelming, and codebases grow over time in unpredictable and confusing ways.

With the insight that big code is big data, we can use the power of knowledge graphs to help us to search for and understand any codebase in the world.

Liu’s time at Google exposed him to a suite of internal developer tools, one of which was Google Code Search, which made all the code at Google accessible.