Tuesday November 22, 2005
Tuesday November 22, 2005 Cross posting this to my Sun blog http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/cmh and my new blog at http://clairegiordano.org/blog/
Chandan is an artist. Of colors and pixels as much as of code and usability. He has a well-developed sense of design. As someone who's made the mistake of debating Chandan on aesthetics, I have to say that he knows his stuff and he stands his ground. In a good way. Whether you're more interested in graphic art or in code-as-art, I recommend you checkout the wicked fast OpenSolaris source browser. And also the tool that powers our source browser, open sourced last week and dubbed OpenGrok.
Back in the day, as they say, I used to be an avid cscope fan, and with cscope as my comparison I was hugely impressed when I first tried the OpenSolaris source browser. Yes, it's fast. But more than that, it clearly showed the connections between different parts of the rather complex code base we deal with in OpenSolaris. And by making those connections rapidly and visually, well, it made it easier for me to grok the code. Did I mention that it's written in Java? Or that it's released under the open source CDDL license?
Kudos to Chandan and Andy and all involved. From developers everywhere, thanks. Wicked thanks.
To find out more:
Andy Tucker talks about the conception of OpenGrok and how he's already using it to browse VMware code.
Chandan's blog entry about OpenGrok
Announcement on OpenSolaris.org
Technorati Tag: OpenSolaris
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