alt Hacker NewsHi!
sorry for not responding to your email, I was swamped.
I looked through the sourcecode, but I can only find UI (ie. browser) code. Does this do anything beyond delivering a more functional and prettier UI on top of an existing zoekt deployment? If no, everybody would be better served if you tried to improve the UI inside Zoekt, which currently is a live demonstration of (my lack of) web app programming skills.
Have you thought of how you will achieve your further goals (eg. semantic search)? That will require server-side changes, but you currently have no Go code at all.
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blagund • 10/02/2024
As for just a UI over Zoekt, let me plug https://github.com/TreeTide/underhood/tree/develop#getting-s.... Uses https://github.com/TreeTide/zoekt-underhood.
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Hey!
Yea that is correct - in its current state, it's functionally a UI wrapper on top of the zoekt-webserver api. One of the reasons why we decided to go with a separate app is that we have much more experience with Typescript, React, and NextJS (the web framework we are using), so it felt like we could move allot quicker using what we know.
In terms of semantic search, that is still very early days - my intuition is that having a separate "semantic code indexer" server written in Python would again allow us to move quickly (since all of the ML libraries are written in Python).