GitHub Code Search Now Generally Available, 'Way More than grep'
Project Management Software Following a two-year effort that involved an invite-only, 17-month technology preview, GitHub Code Search is now generally available. "Our goal with the new code search and code view is to enable developers to quickly find critical information scattered across their codebase, put that information into context, and ultimately make them more productive," said Microsoft-owned GitHub in a May 8 announcement. GitHub detailed how the improved code search can help developers fix a bug, find a configuration and find a vulnerability, thanks to three new capabilities: An entirely redesigned search interface with suggestions, completions, and the ability to slice and dice the results. A new code search engine was rebuilt completely from scratch, making it about twice as fast as the old code search along with being far more capable (supporting substring queries, regular expressions, and symbol search) and better at understanding code, being able to presen...