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Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by rj1 »

ren_engineer wrote: post #23

Surprised more people aren't talking about how Microsoft has a near monopoly on the developer ecosystem. They've got GitHub, OpenAI, and VS Code all working together and collecting data that strengthen each other's products while also using their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL and all of these steer people towards Azure services whenever possible. Seems like something that verges on an anti-trust situa…

i think it extends further than that, since they have: vscode, github, linkedin, npm, typescript, chatgpt. for many, this is almost the entire developer ecosystem.

at a high level they pretend to embrace open source but many of the best features of vscode are closed source, such as remote editing and various language servers (pylance, etc.) the lsp saga is particularly unfriendly, since they pushed it as an open standard, tons of people contributed and adopted it, and then they closed the source to their most valuable language servers, making them only compatible with their product (vscode).

there are countless similar examples. the way i see microsoft and the way they want to be perceived are entirely different.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by swyx »

100k wrote: post #41
ofek wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this mean it will not be implemented?

We want to do it right if we do implement it, but I can't promise anything concretely. It's not trivial, unfortunately.

maybe lower standards would help - what does doing it not-quite-right-but-in-one-week look like? can mitigate by setting expectations accordingly

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by tester756 »

ren_engineer wrote: post #23

Surprised more people aren't talking about how Microsoft has a near monopoly on the developer ecosystem. They've got GitHub, OpenAI, and VS Code all working together and collecting data that strengthen each other's products while also using their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL and all of these steer people towards Azure services whenever possible. Seems like something that verges on an anti-trust situa…

"monopoly on developer ecosystem"

GitHub? fair

OpenAI? how is this a part of dev. ecosystem?

Vs Code? wtf? there's a lot of other IDEs/editors and many would argue that they are better

>embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL

They are EEEing their product - Windows?

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by sk0g »

spyremeown wrote: post #30

>Without code search, you might have to clone a bunch of repositories and grep through them Why is this an issue? I do have a clone of all my company repos, doesn't everyone? Memory is cheap and ripgrep/ag are fast.

No, every microservice or new project/ tool get its own repository. There's new ones being created quite frequently, so I have ~10 repositories cloned that most relate to the work I do, but nothing beyond that.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by aetherane »

jacobr1 wrote: post #18
aetherane wrote: post #8

I don't get the praise over GitHub code search. I find it very inaccurate and often missing references etc. Maybe it depends on the language you are using it with? (Go here)

Have you tried the new search that was just launched? It seems to have significantly improved search accuracy. I agree the old version wasn't that great (though still was one of the better options for finding usage of things in the wild like rarely used OSS dependencies I needed to debug).

I was in the beta, which im assuming was the same. I find it sometimes misses references in the same folder as the file I'm look at when I do reference search.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by rad_gruchalski »

charlieyu1 wrote: post #47
synergy20 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

except windows itself is not loved by most developers, microsoft will take over the developer world when it replaces its windows with linux fully(instead of WSL2, which is nice but not great)

Can't see Linux replacing windows, their most profitable products (Windows and MS Office) are both based on closed ecosystem

I don’t know. I’m happily using ms office on a mac and in the browser.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by rad_gruchalski »

evilspammer wrote: post #75
pydry wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the best things that could be done for open source is to break the monopoly on those damn stars. Open source would be a lot healthier if social proof were portable across platforms.

...who has ever cared about stars?

„Our product has 5000 stars on GitHub, therefore give us money, it’s a business opportunity”. Seen plenty of those on LinkedIn.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by VirusNewbie »

tester756 wrote: post #93
ren_engineer wrote: post #23

Surprised more people aren't talking about how Microsoft has a near monopoly on the developer ecosystem. They've got GitHub, OpenAI, and VS Code all working together and collecting data that strengthen each other's products while also using their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL and all of these steer people towards Azure services whenever possible. Seems like something that verges on an anti-trust situa…

"monopoly on developer ecosystem" GitHub? fair OpenAI? how is this a part of dev. ecosystem? Vs Code? wtf? there's a lot of other IDEs/editors and many would argue that they are better >embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL They are EEEing their product - Windows?

I mean google uses VSCode internally as their officially supported IDE… i’d say they’re doing pretty well.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by capableweb »

tester756 wrote: post #93
ren_engineer wrote: post #23

Surprised more people aren't talking about how Microsoft has a near monopoly on the developer ecosystem. They've got GitHub, OpenAI, and VS Code all working together and collecting data that strengthen each other's products while also using their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL and all of these steer people towards Azure services whenever possible. Seems like something that verges on an anti-trust situa…

"monopoly on developer ecosystem" GitHub? fair OpenAI? how is this a part of dev. ecosystem? Vs Code? wtf? there's a lot of other IDEs/editors and many would argue that they are better >embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL They are EEEing their product - Windows?

> > embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL

> They are EEEing their product - Windows?

No, Linux obviously.

First they like and integrate Linux into their own products. Azure, WSL and others.

Then, they provide extensions that are closed-source on top of those.

With the goal to extinguish the original project so they have more control over the direction.

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