My current employer uses sourcegraph [1], which also uses n-gram based indexing like github's blackbird. Would be interesting to see a comparative benchmark of the two.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/blob/main/doc/dev/background-information/architecture/index.md">https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/blob/main/doc/dev...</a>
> The resulting system can manage about 640 queries per second, compared to about 0.01 queries per second for ripgrep.<p>They are trying to make a point about indexes, but it is overshadowed by the unit mismatch (distributed system QPS vs what sounds like single-machine ripgrep pace)
In 2008, Microsoft acquired Fast Search and Transfer, an enterprise search company that has decent search technologies [1]. It ran on common Linux and Unix systems as well as Windows at the point of the acquisition.<p>[1] I worked there
I hate the new search, most of the time it misses simple things and it is infuriating, I always end up just cloning the repo and searching for things using my own tools<p>"about twice as fast", yeah twice as fast but twice less effective.. what's the point
Lately I feel like the old joke about vegans can be applied to Rust:<p>Q: How do you know if something is written in Rust?<p>A: The author/headline will tell you.