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piekvorsttoday at 4:51 PM1 replyview on HN

I have always used traditional grep to search codebases. It serves me better than an IDE when there’re lots of scattered and frequent queries.

grep’s design is surprisingly winning, exceeding expectations to this day.


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weaksaucetoday at 5:48 PM

you might be interested in https://github.com/boyter/cs

pretty fast and neat project to search code interactively with a lot of optimizations on finding the right thing