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I made a web site that catalogues how various companies/projects use code search: https://codesearchguide.org/story/google https://codesearchguide.org/story/go

by sqs 5y ago

I made a web site that catalogues how various companies/projects use code search: https://codesearchguide.org/story/google https://codesearchguide.org/story/google https://codesearchguide.org/story/facebook https://codesearchguide.org/story/facebook https://codesearchguide.org/story/brave https://codesearchguide.org/story/brave https://codesearchguide.org/story/chromium-android https://codesearchguide.org/story/chromium-android https://codesearchguide.org/story/linux https://codesearchguide.org/story/linux https://codesearchguide.org/story/yelp https://codesearchguide.org/story/yelp https://codesearchguide.org/story/stripe https://codesearchguide.org/story/stripe The Google one in particular has a great breakdown of how they use code search by use case (examples, exploration, etc.). And here are a bunch of known code search tools: https://codesearchguide.org/tools https://codesearchguide.org/tools (Disclaimer: I am the Sourcegraph CEO and our core product is code search.)

wizwit999 5y ago
Interesting, Amazon had a meh internal code search, much better than current GitHub tho.
- sqs 5y ago
  Would you (or anyone else) be willing to write up a page for that site to document what Amazon's internal code search is like (from publicly available sources)?
  - wizwit999 5y ago
    Im not sure much is public info. I'm not there anymore but perhaps someone who is can. Its called GitFarm and had a web UI where you could search with a few different operators, like exact word, path, file extension. They kinda half implemented searching by class name just for Java too. Another thing, you couldn't add a NOT, or exclude certain filepaths, which was annoying especially when ppl would accidentally commit node_modules. Overall, it wasn't too bad buy feels like it had kinda stagnated recently (KTLO).

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I made a web site that catalogues how various companies/projects use code search: https://codesearchguide.org/story/google https://codesearchguide.org/story/go

by sqs 5y ago

wizwit999 5y ago
Interesting, Amazon had a meh internal code search, much better than current GitHub tho.
- sqs 5y ago
  Would you (or anyone else) be willing to write up a page for that site to document what Amazon's internal code search is like (from publicly available sources)?
  - wizwit999 5y ago
    Im not sure much is public info. I'm not there anymore but perhaps someone who is can. Its called GitFarm and had a web UI where you could search with a few different operators, like exact word, path, file extension. They kinda half implemented searching by class name just for Java too. Another thing, you couldn't add a NOT, or exclude certain filepaths, which was annoying especially when ppl would accidentally commit node_modules. Overall, it wasn't too bad buy feels like it had kinda stagnated recently (KTLO).