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Colin here (I'm the "named employee"). I don't mind being called out, FWIW. I'm proud of what we built. We would definitely have implemented sorting by recency if it was trivial to…

Hmm, you can construct a regular expression, something like: lang:tsx / Example: https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Atsx+%2F%3CButton%5B%5E%5C...

Ah, you need to log in to get access to the new code search!

Yes, we're working on bringing it to GitHub enterprise right now.

Great point. Yes, we initially focused on zero-config approximate code navigation. But we do intend to support build-based code navigation in the future, since the approximate code…

I'm Colin from GitHub's code search team, happy to answer any questions. For more info on how we built this, you can check out our technical blog post from a few months ago https:/…

We have not done this yet, but we do intend to. Actually, our search engine is so fast that syntax highlighting the search results is often slower than finding them... so if we sto…

Good question. We still construct ngrams for it, exactly the same way. So for example, we might extract `aaa`, `aaa`, and `aaa`. Or we may extract `aaaa` and `aaaa`, or perhaps `aa…

Hey saagarjha, thanks for the feedback. It's our goal to make the experience as good as possible, and we're aware of shortcomings with cmd+F and `t`, among other things. We're work…

Hey everyone, I'm Colin from GitHub's code search team: happy to answer any questions people have about it. Also, you can sign up to get access here: https://github.com/features/co…

We have fixed it behind a feature flag that isn't yet rolled out. Still experimenting with it. But expect to see that resolved in the next couple weeks

Positive feedback feels nice, but negative is way more useful to making a great product. We're changing an website that millions of people use every day. Hopefully we mostly have a…

Appreciate the feedback. > static view of the core Not sure what you mean by that, can you elaborate? FWIW we are working to more tightly integrate code search into the code view. …

I'm guessing you are in our Code Search Technology Preview (which was at cs.github.com), which gives you access to this new UI as well. By the way, feel free to opt out if you hate…

We're not using server side rendering extensively at GitHub (yet) but are experimenting with it on some React pages. Hoping to make the pages even faster than the previous Rails/ER…

GitHub has been investing in React for a while (e.g. see our accessible React design system https://primer.style/react/ ). Many developers at GitHub have experience with React, whi…

Not the case, the mobile app is great, but we know developers use mobile web. It matters to us. Will definitely improve it

Yep, aware of these mobile issues and are actively fixing them, will hopefully improve in the next week or so. And thanks for the feedback. We're in Beta right now exactly so we ca…

This is just the first step of using React within GitHub.com, so we still use a lot of traditional Rails/ERB, even on the React pages (e.g. for the header/footer).

I'm one of the engineers at GitHub who was behind this new UI, let me know if you have any questions. We chose React for this code search/code view because it has a lot of interact…

I'm one of the engineers at GitHub that built this - happy to answer questions (or fast-track your access into the preview!)

Hey, I'm on the GitHub code search team. We've had a ton of people join the waitlist, sorry it's taking so long to get through everyone! We're hoping to get most people access earl…

The new search does find filenames! :D

Might also be worth checking out the syntax guide: https://cs.github.com/about/syntax#symbol