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by londons_explore 700 days ago
Code search is the one bit Id like to see improved.

Just hire someone who worked for Google and copy their internal code search.

(Preview available here: https://source.chromium.org/)

Technical caveat: To work effectively, it needs to be able to compile (parse into an AST) the code, which for many GitHub projects is challenging. I'd bet they could easily get to 80% compilation rate though and then use dumb text search on the rest.

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Is this (Google Code Search, https://source.chromium.org/) open-source?