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Re:Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog by brabel on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:31AM (#23887910)
Jetbrain IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ) have structural search which is basically a query language for code: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re...

I know there's more to just queriability in the post, but I thought this should've been mentioned when discussing what existing IDEs can offer.

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Re:Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog by agumonkey on Sunday July 19, 2020 @09:21AM (#23889162)
we're not far from coccinelle-ing the codebase
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