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Comment by adamnemecek | Hacker News Reader

If anyone from github is reading this, I would totally pay for a much better search. Like even $20-30/month. If you deduplicate results (it sucks when you are searching for something that's appears In a popular library) and like make it integrated with my ide, I think that it would spike my productivity by like thousand percent.

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Have you checked out out https://sourcegraph.com/ ? It has awesome code search and navigation for github.

I am. But they don't support he languages I care about these days. Which is mostly swift I guess.

Sourcegraph CEO here. Go to https://sourcegraph.com/beta to get early access and to vote for your favorite language. We hear you and are rapidly adding support for new languages. :)

(BTW: Passionate about a language and want to help us build Sourcegraph support for it, or know someone who'd be interested? Email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com. We can sponsor you. The latest requirements for adding a new language are not yet publicly documented, so contact us before getting started.)

Kind of expected that you would be able to search all of GitHub there but it seems to be limited to selected libraries and your own repos? Also, surprised that C is not supported.. Personally I'm using GitHub's code search to discover dumps of code and docs for random Chinese hardware (SBCs and such). I've found it much easier than trying to find SDKs on Baidu's file sharing site (Baidu Pan).

Sourcegraph CEO here. We need to do a bunch of language-specific stuff to make search work well for finding definitions and usage examples, so we've scoped it for now. But we're almost ready to add more languages and index all repositories; check https://sourcegraph.com/beta to get early access and to +1 your preferred languages. This is the #1 request we get, and we can't wait to have Sourcegraph work for all code and more languages. :)

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