Comment by rav
2 years ago
I have missed Google Code Search, which launched in 2006 and was discontinued in 2013. Similar to GitHub's code search, it supported searching by regex and filtering by language etc. - but obviously the amount of code to search through is orders of magnitude larger than it was 10-15 years ago. Still I wonder what took GitHub so long to build this - it's hardly a novel idea, and it seems like such an obvious power tool for programmers to have.
> Still I wonder what took GitHub so long to build this - it's hardly a novel idea, and it seems like such an obvious power tool for programmers to have.
Scale. You can read more about their engineering at https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
You could try https://sourcegraph.com/search
Though GitHub will probably have all the same features eventually and cheaper too.