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Re:Why Go Is Not Good (2014) by fixermark on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:40AM (#10704726)
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Re:Why Go Is Not Good (2014) by pcwalton on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:46AM (#10704795)
That's fair.

Though I've always found GitHub's code search to be less than useful in general. I think it doesn't really make sense to not have overloading because GitHub doesn't support semantic indexing in 2015, especially since you can easily just not use GitHub for code search.

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Re:Why Go Is Not Good (2014) by 15155 on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @12:42PM (#10705233)
GitHub search breaks on really simple things, too:

- Queries <= 3 characters in length

- Certain common characters are totally not supported in queries - quotes, etc.

- Forks cannot be searched.

I always just clone and use a proper search tool if I know what I am looking for is in a specific codebase.

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