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The feature "Code Seeker" finds the code you need. It shows you real code from your, your teams, your organization or even public repositories. You can navigate the code by selecting next or previous and zoom in or out to see more of the code.
The benefit is code reusability as well as learning from existing code.
Any feedback is welcome - thanks
How do I specify what I'm looking for? What level of granularity does it work at? What languages does it cover? How is this different from using libraries? How can I trust the code I find?
Does it exist yet?
However...
License matters.
Control matters (what if I need to make a change to fit a certain scenario? How does that happen? Is it propagated upstream? How/when?)
Searchability matters. How do I know what I am looking for, especially across domains and companies?
second, even code is found, building requires lots of work. missing dependency, mismatching interfaces, unsupported os...
I think it's difficult to search a functionality by words. For example, if I want to fund matrix multiplication, the function name could mulmat, matrixProduct .... could be anything. second, even code is found, building requires lots of work. missing dependency, mismatching interfaces, unsupported os...
Anything that is generic, e.g. a double entry accounting system, an Actor model, etc. should be in a package management system - a Gem, a Nuget Package, a NPM pacakage etc. rather than copy pasted.
At the micro level for specific line-of-code level problems (usually due to language/platform quirks) we have StackOverflow.
I think it's difficult to search a functionality by words. For example, if I want to fund matrix multiplication, the function name could mulmat, matrixProduct .... could be anything. second, even code is found, building requires lots of work. missing dependency, mismatching interfaces, unsupported os...