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I love the idea of a search engine like SymbolHound, but I find the results lacking in practice. For example, a search for Swift's nil coalescing operator turn
by dskang 11y ago
I love the idea of a search engine like SymbolHound, but I find the results lacking in practice.
For example, a search for Swift's nil coalescing operator turns up nothing of relevance: http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F
(Actual information about "??" in Swift for anyone interested: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/BasicOperators.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH6-ID60 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...)
- dncrane 11y agoHi, I'm the developer of SymbolHound. You're right, SymbolHound's index is a little lacking, especially for new languages. This is because it's based almost entirely on a stackoverflow data dump (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...) from when I first made it (2011). Swift was released in 2014, so there are no results. I'm planning to update it when I have the time.