What does HackerNews think of code-search?

This is really great but it also feels like a bit of an oversight to not realize that Github (aka MS aka OpenAI) launched a Sourcegraph competitor recently:

https://github.com/features/code-search

I appreciate the breakdown of how to do it yourself, but even having to signup for a waitlist to try their option when Github seems emmintely able to basically do exactly the same thing... idk. It just points to how the people that control the models really have final say here. It's hard to posit yourself as in a lucky position when you're faced up against the perfect opponent more primed to act more quickly that you are.

Have you tried the new search? Thanks to the variable length ngram indexing mentioned in the post, it can handle all of those cases. Sign up here to try it: https://github.com/features/code-search

Symbol extraction for C and C++ is currently disabled because we were having problems with the performance of the tree-sitter queries we were using, but we are planning to bring that back.

Hey everyone, I'm Colin from GitHub's code search team: happy to answer any questions people have about it. Also, you can sign up to get access here: https://github.com/features/code-search

(I worked on the backend for this, not the frontend.)

Yes, the new code search and navigation experience is powered by React for the frontend. We decided to use that because we wanted to build a stateful, rich navigation experience.

If you want to try it, please sign up for our beta https://github.com/features/code-search (we have been clearing the waitlist daily.)