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Re:Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code by asaka on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:33AM (#14263441)
> As you can imagine, Ruby code intelligence (type inference, etc.) is super tough, and there are maybe 5-10 people in the world who could build it right now.

Is Yin Wang in the list?

Re:Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code by hvis on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:36PM (#14268548)
Do you know what happened to RubySonar?

I remember reading something about it, but now only search engines retain traces of it.

Re:Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code by asaka on Thursday May 04, 2017 @10:39PM (#14270754)
Here is his post about why he closed source the PySornar and RubySonar: http://www.yinwang.org/blog-cn/2017/04/18/close-source
Re:Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code by hvis on Sunday May 07, 2017 @07:09PM (#14288213)
Thank you.

Too bad it's in Chinese, but Google Translate got me the gist. An unfortunate story.

Not sure why he didn't settle on GPL or AGPL, though.