pyjarrett/septum
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Context-based code search tool
4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2022-03-27 · latest 2024-04-11
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One of the most interesting approaches to code search I've seen recently (no affiliation) https://github.com/pyjarrett/septum The hardest part about getting code search right imo is grabbing the right amount of surrounding context, which…
comment by ivanovm · 2024-04-11 · in Code search is hard -
Ada is another option without a GC. I wrote a search tool for large codebases with it ( https://github.com/pyjarrett/septum ), and the easy and built-in tasking and pinning to CPUs allows you to easily go wide if the problem you're solving…
comment by pyjarrett · 2022-04-16 · in Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself -
I work on code bases with millions of lines, so I wrote a tool called Septum to help me ( https://github.com/pyjarrett/septum/ ). This isn't to replace grep or ripgrep or silver searcher, those are all great tools you should have! Septum…
comment by pyjarrett · 2022-03-27 · in Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?