I wonder if anyone has ever tried to build a "package2vec" or even "function2vec", along the lines of "word2vec". There's so much usable information in code and comments, and it would be cool to provide that info in an Atom tooltip, say.
On Monday, March 28, 2016 at 9:40:59 AM UTC-4, Tim Holy wrote: > > I sometimes find https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl can be useful. It's > a hard > problem to keep all this organized, though, so more searchable tools might > be > a good idea. I'm not aware of any efforts to provide this, so it seems > like an > area ripe for an impactful contribution! > > --Tim > > On Monday, March 28, 2016 12:54:43 AM hustf wrote: > > Skimming pkg.julialang.org is pleasantly impossible with 904 registered > > packages. This smells exponential growth. > > > > Is there a tool to simply download the text files in all of the > packages? > > Last time I checked, I wasn't able to do that with github commands. > > > > I think it would be impossible to foresee which information might be > > relevant while keeping the tool you're requesting fast and lightweight. > The > > text files already contain all the info, and we can easily extract data > > like dependencies from them. So I inelegantly maintain a ghost folder > > structure with text files from packages I've tried out so far. > >
