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How is this so much faster than browsing my tiny little repo on Github? What is Github doing so wrong??
by isaacdl 5mo ago
How is this so much faster than browsing my tiny little repo on Github? What is Github doing so wrong??
- ecshafer 5mo agoWow that is a lot faster and nicer than Github. This is a good example of large companies wouldn't send someone across the street to pick up $1M off the ground. If Google actually released that and a repo to public, they could take Githubs throne. But a few $B business isn't worthit for them.
- jpadkins 5mo agoIt's not that the $2B business isn't interesting, it's competing with GitHub would be a major undertaking and the opportunity cost of doing that is probably more than $2B.
- bskap 5mo agoWell, indexing and searching is kind of Google's thing. It also helps that they're using a unified build system. They can instrument the compiler to get cross references from the build instead of trying to figure out out by parsing the text themselves. They open sourced the tool to do it- https://kythe.io https://kythe.io - but I think it would be a pain to make it work for anything like GitHub that supports arbitrary languages and build systems with untrusted code