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I'm not surprised. Low-tech website with zero marketing and no big players using it or throwing their weight behind it. I've perused their docs and the immedia
by yukinon 5y ago
I'm not surprised. Low-tech website with zero marketing and no big players using it or throwing their weight behind it.
I've perused their docs and the immediate question for me is, why would I use this over another more popular search library or database that already has a wealth of stackoverflow and blog posts?
I'm sure it's a fine tool, but I don't see a reason why an enterprise should hedge their bets on this unknown.
- yakubin 5y agoNotmuch[1] is using it. It has a good reputation. [1]: <https://notmuchmail.org/ https://notmuchmail.org/>
- yukinon 5y agoThanks for the example, I'm aware of Notmuch but had no idea it relied on Xapian. However, back to my original point, there's simply not enough people or large projects/companies that rely on and use Xapian. I'm 99% positive that there is less than a handful of people at any of the last two Fortune 500 companies I've worked for that even knows what Notmuch is. But everyone knows Elastic, MongoDB, etc.. Again, I don't think Xapian is a bad tool or that it's underperforming by any stretch, but OP should not be surprised at all that most people have not heard of it.