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by beyang 1352 days ago
* Full code intelligence platform (not just code search) with Code Insights for tracking trends (https://about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights) and Batch Changes for large-scale refactors (https://about.sourcegraph.com/batch-changes)

* Precise code navigation (vs. more fuzzy-level nav), powered by SCIP (spiritual successor to Grok, the system Steve built at Google)

* More powerful search language beyond regex (supports comby.dev) + user-friendly (smart search)

* Works across multiple GitHub instances + other code hosts (GitLab, Bitbucket, Perforce, enterprise Git repositories)

* Self-hosted deployment and enterprise scale

cs.github.com is a significant improvement over github.com/search—kudos to the team there!—but is about feature parity with something like OpenGrok, Hound, or Google Code Search before Steve built and integrated Grok (primarily cross-codebase regex search).

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> cs.github.com is a significant improvement over github.com/search It's a significant improvement, but still frustrating to use (especially after being spoiled by Google's codesearch). Sourcegraph has been far more pleasant to use in my experience (e.g., faster and more relevant navigation).