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Whether we like it and use it or not (I love it and use it), I think we can only be super impressed by the productivity of the Kagi team. Look at these dates. I

Whether we like it and use it or not (I love it and use it), I think we can only be super impressed by the productivity of the Kagi team. Look at these dates. It's insane.

xigoi 3y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to them using Crystal for the backend.
- _aaed 3y ago
  It's a general purpose programming language like any other mainstream language.
  - xigoi 3y ago
    Being a statically typed variant of Ruby, it’s well suited for fast development without making a mess.
- ksec 3y ago
  I wouldn't be surprised it make huge difference. I would like to point to [1] compmike's comment. You get 80% Ruby along with Types benefit plus many Times the RUNTIME speed improvement. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216786
Semaphor 3y ago
I’m actually currently pretty annoyed with them, as it’s been over 2 weeks of non-English searches being borderline-broken [0] with no feedback or ETA. [0]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-english-results-given-too-much-preference https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-english-results-given-too-mu...
- kristofferR 3y ago
  You aren't using the correct language though, you are on International. Local language searches has improved vastly lately. Now I can just keep it on my local language, even while doing English searches. Previously I had to switch between national and international all the time, that was a pain.
  - kioleanu 3y ago
    Oh he’s holding it wrong
  - Semaphor 3y ago
    Nope, my issue was the one further down with `!de`, it got merged into this one. > Now I can just keep it on my local language, even while doing English searches. That’s exactly the issue. I search for a name, so it can’t know what language it’s in. But I want the German results, that’s why I switched it to German. > Previously I had to switch between national and international all the time, that was a pain. That wasn’t an issue at all for me, I use !de for German searches, and nothing for automatic international searches.
    - kristofferR 3y ago
      Yeah, seems like we have totally opposite opinions, I vastly prefer the way it is now where I don't have to use bangs/change settings all the time to get good results by default. My language, Norwegian, is also a much "smaller" one than German, so search results without any English are outright worse. Personally, even if I spoke German, I'd prefer to get Wikipedia on top for a search like "Olympus E-P2". It seems like they should implement a "verbatim language" search option, so both use cases can be satisfied.
      - Semaphor 3y ago
        I'd rather have the German Wikipedia, though … And never the US Amazon or eBay over the German version.
        3y ago

Whether we like it and use it or not (I love it and use it), I think we can only be super impressed by the productivity of the Kagi team. Look at these dates. It's insane.

xigoi 3y ago

I wonder how much of this is due to them using Crystal for the backend.

_aaed 3y ago
It's a general purpose programming language like any other mainstream language.
- xigoi 3y ago
  Being a statically typed variant of Ruby, it’s well suited for fast development without making a mess.
ksec 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised it make huge difference. I would like to point to [1] compmike's comment. You get 80% Ruby along with Types benefit plus many Times the RUNTIME speed improvement. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216786

Semaphor 3y ago

I’m actually currently pretty annoyed with them, as it’s been over 2 weeks of non-English searches being borderline-broken [0] with no feedback or ETA. [0]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-english-results-given-too-much-preference https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-english-results-given-too-mu...

kristofferR 3y ago
You aren't using the correct language though, you are on International. Local language searches has improved vastly lately. Now I can just keep it on my local language, even while doing English searches. Previously I had to switch between national and international all the time, that was a pain.
- kioleanu 3y ago
  Oh he’s holding it wrong
- Semaphor 3y ago
  Nope, my issue was the one further down with `!de`, it got merged into this one. > Now I can just keep it on my local language, even while doing English searches. That’s exactly the issue. I search for a name, so it can’t know what language it’s in. But I want the German results, that’s why I switched it to German. > Previously I had to switch between national and international all the time, that was a pain. That wasn’t an issue at all for me, I use !de for German searches, and nothing for automatic international searches.
  - kristofferR 3y ago
    Yeah, seems like we have totally opposite opinions, I vastly prefer the way it is now where I don't have to use bangs/change settings all the time to get good results by default. My language, Norwegian, is also a much "smaller" one than German, so search results without any English are outright worse. Personally, even if I spoke German, I'd prefer to get Wikipedia on top for a search like "Olympus E-P2". It seems like they should implement a "verbatim language" search option, so both use cases can be satisfied.
    - Semaphor 3y ago
      I'd rather have the German Wikipedia, though … And never the US Amazon or eBay over the German version.
      - 3y ago