Comments on: Koders.com: Find Yer Code Here

By: Marcus Bonatelli

Marcus Bonatelli — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:11:38 +0000

I just started using Koders Eclipse plug-in. It's mind blowing! The plug-in has a SmartSearch feature that finds code for me. Koders has inverted the search paradigm. This is a remarkable innovation.

you can download the Koders plug-in here

By: codase

codase — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:20:21 +0000

Please check out our newly released source code search engine here,
http://www.codase.com

e.g., search socket method call,
http://www.codase.com/search/call?name=socket&owner=&lang=*&type=&par...

Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming
languages, and treats code as code, the way it's supposed to be. This
unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and
detailed search results with fine granularity levels of controls. With
Codase, one can search functions, classes, strings, constants, macros,
comments and other programming language constructs.

Codase hosts huge amount of open source codes providing a much better
coverage, as it covers codes usually hidden inside compressed files and
source control repositories, where general search engines fail to find
and index. In addition, Codase only indexes and searches high quality
codes with every line of code literally validated and compiled by
intelligent and powerful source code analysis engine.

By: Dee Robinett

Dee Robinett — Sat, 21 May 2005 11:17:17 +0000

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By: Dustin Quasar Sacks

Dustin Quasar Sacks — Fri, 13 May 2005 09:23:20 +0000

Koders has existed for a while now, and I have found it to be a useful reference on a couple of occasions. I think the success will be based on how good a search return they can give to queries. Or maybe google will buy them in a bit…

By: Mark Harwood

Mark Harwood — Fri, 13 May 2005 08:39:35 +0000

I find it can be a useful resource.

It would be good to add a decent graph visualization (think social network) of the projects so you can see project dependencies and therefore individual projects' popularity.

Maybe they should register that "CodeRank" trademark...

By: Ven

Ven — Fri, 13 May 2005 03:46:23 +0000

The other issue is that most open source is covered by GPL (or GPL-like) and the resulting code would have to be made available to anyone. That would limit commerical applications from being developed.

By: rabble

rabble — Fri, 13 May 2005 00:12:37 +0000

I remember seeing this a while ago. It doesn’t seem nearly as useful as something like search.cpan.org which is specifically focused on libraries and modules you can use. Also if you’re looking at code snipits, use design patterns instead random code.