Closing the Find-Usages Gap in CIDER

Next up in the series on the notable changes in CIDER 2.0 : cross-references. Or, as most people call the feature, “find usages” - for years the most commonly cited reason to run clojure-lsp alongside (or instead of) CIDER. Let’s talk about why that gap existed and how we finally closed it. Why runtime xref wasn’t enough CIDER has had runtime cross-referencing for a while: the cider/fn-refs op walks the loaded vars in your REPL and reports which functions reference the one at point. It’s a ge...