Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (Changelog Interviews #217)

Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.

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Featuring:

• Beyang Liu – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Beyang on BeyondCode at GopherCon 2015
• Sourcegraph on GitHub
• Sourcegraph.com
• Sourcegraph for GitHub
• Checkup - A distributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages
• Fair Source License
• Sourcegraph Aims to be the ‘Google for Code

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