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by jijijijij 767 days ago
Love the idea, but isn't the "indexing" part of many editors and language servers already? Ctags and stuff? Never got the impression that to be a huge problem on modern hardware.

I doubt, there will be much demand for throwing large non-public code bases into third party services... However, I can totally see how this would be a hit as a FOSS project.

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I've built a code search engine in the past so I know how painful debugging long indexing jobs can be and I would certainly be reluctant to support private repos until I know I can index thousands if not tens of thousands of open source repos with no issues.
That's more or less the plan. We want to prove our concept with free software repos first.