jdorfmanThe Future of SCIP
Oh, not SICP.
... and not the solver for mixed integer (linear) programming (MI(L)P) and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP):
Nor the other SCIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Communications_Interope...
The similar acronym appears to be intentional:
> Note on the name: SCIP is pronounced the same way as “skip” and it’s a recursive acronym that stands for “SCIP Code Intelligence Protocol.”
> SCIP is also a purposeful nod to SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Programs), a book about analyzing programs.
https://sourcegraph.com/blog/announcing-scip#:~:text=SCIP%20...
The git repo is here: https://github.com/scip-code/scip
Looks like it's defined using protocol buffers, with "rich Go and Rust bindings" and links to implementations for many other languages.
Something something powers go to definition… is this an implementation of an LSP server? Or a subset of what’s needed to implement LSP? A formerly proprietary alternative to LSP?
In its simplest form, it's just a dump of the code intelligence information from a static copy of the code. This can power an LSP, however, without additional logic wouldn't be able to handle a project under edit, since the locations won't match between the indexed state and the edited project state; So it lends itself well for something like Sourcegraph that already displays a static copy of the codebase.
Uber uses SCIP as part of the LSP implementation for our Java monorepo (Pieces of which we've [open-sourced](https://github.com/uber/scip-lsp)).
Standardizing on SCIP has helped us generalize tools to be independent of the compiler/language ecosystem (eg we could do call-stack-analysis on any project that exports valid SCIP; do feature flag cleanup; find refs/impls across a wider scope than most LSP servers can handle due to memory constraints).
