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0 pointsMarkSweep1mo ago0 comments

To make this more concrete, the Chromium source code browser has a subset of the functionality of the internal Code Search tool. For example, you can left click on symbols to go to reference and right click to find all references:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:ipc...

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isaacdl1mo ago· 3 in thread

How is this so much faster than browsing my tiny little repo on Github? What is Github doing so wrong??

bskap1mo ago

Well, 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 - 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

ecshafer1mo ago

Wow 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.

jpadkins1mo ago

It'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.

surajrmal1mo ago

In fact a lot of Google software projects have a public version of code search: https://cs.opensource.google/

knightabu1mo ago

Brings back lots of memories. The only way i used that tool was back when Chrome stopped forever history near about the year 2014-2015 and limited users to 90 days of history.

I was trying to wrap around my head like reading the comments trying how to put it back in. Wrong strategy without serious review does more of harm.

More than a decade of this fiasco Google Chrome should bring it back forever history, now they dont have an excuse for this, what i hear (google Chrome now downloads an offline LLM without considering data charges or space requirements in edge deployed server,etc.), and it will help users themselves as now most browsers except Firefox or Safari are Chromium-Based and they too inherited this shiny features with not-so obvious limitations.

The History bug in point - https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40358997

knightabu1mo ago

Brings back lots of memories. The only way i used that tool was back when Chrome stopped forever history near about the year 2014-2015 and limited users to 90 days of history.

I was trying to wrap around my head like reading the comments trying how to put it back in. Wrong strategy without serious review does more of harm.

The History bug in point - https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40358997

Fun read seeing even with all the tools in the world there is not enough soul or will to fix a very minor regression made by human error of judgement and other companies just accept that like their lives depend on it.

Good thing after reading the above article came to know its possible to use this https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium has a flag to store old history.

Computer01mo ago

This is so lovely to use.

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8 comments · 5 top-level

isaacdl1mo ago· 3 in thread

How is this so much faster than browsing my tiny little repo on Github? What is Github doing so wrong??

bskap1mo ago

They open sourced the tool to do it- 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

ecshafer1mo ago

Wow that is a lot faster and nicer than Github.

jpadkins1mo ago

It'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.

surajrmal1mo ago

In fact a lot of Google software projects have a public version of code search: https://cs.opensource.google/

knightabu1mo ago

Brings back lots of memories. The only way i used that tool was back when Chrome stopped forever history near about the year 2014-2015 and limited users to 90 days of history.

I was trying to wrap around my head like reading the comments trying how to put it back in. Wrong strategy without serious review does more of harm.

The History bug in point - https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40358997

knightabu1mo ago

Brings back lots of memories. The only way i used that tool was back when Chrome stopped forever history near about the year 2014-2015 and limited users to 90 days of history.

I was trying to wrap around my head like reading the comments trying how to put it back in. Wrong strategy without serious review does more of harm.

The History bug in point - https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40358997

Good thing after reading the above article came to know its possible to use this https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium has a flag to store old history.

Computer01mo ago

This is so lovely to use.

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