The new code search includes private repos. Miles ahead doesn’t matter if you get the search at GitHub for free. GitHub actions started out pretty terrible but they are now dominating hosted CI.
SourceGraph likely has challenging times ahead considering the valuation.
Sourcegraph CEO here. “Challenging times” is how it should be all the time. That means competition is forcing both GitHub and us to build better stuff for devs. Devs win.
But to be clear, as a company we are doing well and growing nicely inside customers, with a ton of cash in the bank, an awesome team, and a huge opportunity ahead of us. GitHub’s new code search has been out for 14 months now, so this is nothing new.
It’s a big market and there’s way more room for differentiation and dev choice in code search/intelligence than in CI. There’s a lot of code intelligence that GitHub won’t support (precise code nav for more languages, comprehensive code ownership, metadata from other dev tools that know things about code outside the GitHub/Microsoft suite, etc.), there’s a need for the ability to fix (with our Batch Changes) not just find, and even in the core search workflow there’s so much room for improvement with AI fine-tuned on your own code, etc.
But talk is cheap and only shipping matters. So, watch what we ship, and send any feedback and requests our way!
SourceGraph likely has challenging times ahead considering the valuation.