[zbowling]

As someone who used GitHub for years (2009-2014), got acquired into a big tech company for 8 years, so I didn't get to use it much, and then got to go back to a startup that used it again, it feels like a totally different product. It's a starkly different offering from that perspective.

GitHub Actions are a major part of that. Codespaces, a solution for Mac CI, that you automate so much, store secrets, drive not CI but CD straight from GitHub now, etc. It's evolved a ton. Then you have the other things they are doing as company with copilot and vscode (and formerly atom).

Sure, code search is only moderately better, and maybe some of the core git features aren't getting as much razzle-dazzle in the UI, but it's evolved a ton.

[londons_explore]

Code search is the one bit Id like to see improved.

Just hire someone who worked for Google and copy their internal code search.

(Preview available here: https://source.chromium.org/)

Technical caveat: To work effectively, it needs to be able to compile (parse into an AST) the code, which for many GitHub projects is challenging. I'd bet they could easily get to 80% compilation rate though and then use dumb text search on the rest.

[artemisart]

Is this (Google Code Search, https://source.chromium.org/) open-source?