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I'm creating a faster search engine of usual programming queries and this article is very helpful. The quick search is performed from a preloaded database in memory, so it takes milliseconds to find and update, no web queries, no page reloading. I started this project because I switch a lot between languages and constantly forget/confuse their syntax, so I wanted it to show me the snippet for that same operation in those different languages instead of doing several searches. Don't want to hijack this thread, but I'd like to know what features you people would expect.



What you're doing sounds distantly related to http://www.rosettacode.org


Kind of, but for example if you input "append item to array" in that wiki it will show you a bunch of results that you need to read or even open in order to find the code sample. Which is the usual search engine output. My idea is giving you 1 snippet per language in the result, telling you which lang it's for and you are able to filter out and prioritize them from the UI or query. A quick visual inspection of the results will give you the answer.




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