lsif-clang VS advanced

In the top right corner of the tooltip it will say either "Search-based" or "Precise" - in this case, you're right, we don't have the abseil-cpp repo indexed so it falls back to search-based as you describe.

We do have a C++ code indexer in beta, https://github.com/sourcegraph/lsif-clang - it is based on clang but C++ indexing is notably harder to do automatically/without-setup due to the varying build systems that need to be understood in order to invoke the compiler.

Interesting because on https://lsif.dev/ I see that LSIF support for C++, which basically is just a wrapper around clangd AFAIU, is deprecated. Is there something else that replaced it?

We already have an LSIF indexer for C++ (lsif-clang); however, that is not as feature complete as the other indexers. Moreover, the codebase is forked off of Clang 10, so upgrading to newer Clang versions (and build a SCIP indexer on top of that) will be a challenge.

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Why are not all repos covered?

Because different languages have different build systems, so inferring the right build commands, dependencies etc. is not so straightforward; these are necessary per-requisites for compiler-accurate cross references. We're working on fixing this with auto-indexing: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/code_intelligence/explanations/...

For C and C++ specifically, auto-indexing is challenging because of the large variety in build systems, informal specification of dependencies (such as in a README instead of a machine-readable format), and platform-specific code.

Outside of auto-indexing, we do have an indexer for C and C++ right now (https://github.com/sourcegraph/lsif-clang) which can be run in CI; that way one can generate an index and upload it to Sourcegraph on a regular basis. It is 'Partially available' (https://docs.sourcegraph.com/code_intelligence/references/in...) right now. We're keenly aware of the interest in C++, and are working our way through different languages based on usage.

GitHub advanced search

GitHub's advanced search. GitHub advanced search provides tons of filters to find repos and issues according to our preferences. You can filter by language, extension, issue labels, number of stars/forks, etc. 🔗 Link - github.com/search/advanced

See https://github.com/search/advanced there are various date options

You can try playing around with advanced search.

Usually when I as a user want to check if a technology exists or is legit I do a GitHub search like a GitHub advanced search or a Google Advanced Search, and for the Google Advanced Search if I want it to search for things in GitHub I will put https://github.com/ in the "site or domain:" field. Google puts more popular results closer to the top so usually I would just click the first result and then look at the number of stars on GitHub and if the number is low (like less than 1000) it's not a sufficiently popular project. You could write code that automates the process of doing a Google Advanced Search or searching GitHub by using Selenium or maybe just making an API call or HTTP request then using something like BeautifulSoup to scrape the site (BeautifulSoup converts the site into an object that you can query). GitHub just uses plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without using a framework like React or Angular so it shouldn't be too hard to scrape.

Next, find a project that takes contributions (many do). You said you know TypeScript and JavaScript, so search for repositories in those languages. You can use GitHub's advanced search to search by language, just set the language to JavaScript or TypeScript and click search, you don't have to fill out anything else. Alternatively, if there's a tool or website you like to use, see if it's hosted on GitHub and check the "Issues" tab in the repository's main page.

Are you being sarcastic?

If not, GitHub recently updated their search feature and it's pretty good.

https://github.com/search/advanced

I can do an advanced search on GitHub: https://github.com/search/advanced, but I find it hard to find open issues in specific repos, that are not assigned to any one.

GitHub advanced search

I don't know for sure, but it might be possible for you to make the jump from hobby to professional. There are a lot of technical books on Amazon, there are various coding and programming communities and groups on Reddit and Facebooks, and there are lots of potential codebases that you could try working on on GitHub (I personally used GitHub advanced search at https://github.com/search/advanced ). Sometimes on GitHub they label coding issues for beginners with the "easy" label which you can search for using GitHub advanced search. Oh, and there are coding bootcamps which take a percentage of your income after you're hired, plus there are programs in the US like Revature and SkillStorm that will put you into a shitty junior coding position for two years at $15-$20 an hour but then if you do okay or good at that and get good references you can move to a non-junior level position after that at much better pay. In my experience you usually don't know how well you will perform at a job until after you actually have to do that job.