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Re:How Google Code Search Worked (2012) by tehlike on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:06AM (#22554495)
Code search, critique, Piper/citc/cider are amazing for developing

Power drill is fantastic for drilling down data. So much money was made thanks to this one.

Re:How Google Code Search Worked (2012) by dvirsky on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:01PM (#22558175)
Piper was actually a big source of frustration for me. Yeah it's dead simple, but once you have a CL chain, you're entering a world of pain. I've switched to Fig a while ago and haven't looked back. Beyond a tiny fix I'll start editing from CS or a throwaway citc client, it's just simpler to use fig. I've been able to juggle 4-5 CL chains easily and it makes my workflow much easier. Also splitting CLs before review is much simpler with Fig.
Re:How Google Code Search Worked (2012) by ignoramous on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:40AM (#22554891)
Are these code tools built using https://github.com/kythe/kythe ? Any other OSS projects by Google that back these?
Re:How Google Code Search Worked (2012) by cameronbrown on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:40AM (#22555418)
I believe so. Kythe seems to have spawned out of the internal CodeSearch.
Re:How Google Code Search Worked (2012) by hangtwenty on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:12AM (#22557674)
Something that is not by Google but which you would probably like - SourceGraph. Has commercial options but it is OSS.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/