On: Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

[justboxing]

How different is this from CodeLens ? Seems like most of these features are in CodeLens anyways, maybe the licensing for CodeLens??

CodeLens => https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn269218.aspx

[smoothgrips → justboxing]

I think you're thinking of CodeMAP, not CodeLENS.

CodeMap => https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/modeling/use-c...

[egraether → justboxing]

CodeLens is great for finding references within the IDE. It also provides information about the history, which Sourcetrail doesn't do yet.

I would say we go a step further, by also providing a visual representation of the references to symbol, which quickly conveys how a symbol is embedded into the rest of the code base, without even reading a line of code. That makes exploring a lot faster.