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The future's already here, just not evenly distributed :) I wrote this in part to surface these ideas to new people!

I'm pretty sure Eclipse or IntelliJ build a meaningful index of my code base... What about that ?

They do but those aren't made available to you like a database, just through their search tool and indirectly through their contextual lookups.

See also tools that build databases from code history, like